Cost for overhauling city’s schools could top $1b, Walsh says

[unhappycamper]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/09/29/mayor-walsh-launches-plan-overhaul-deteriorating-schools/zahyuQ44KgH3tzEXdeyljP/story.html



“It’s going to be our first comprehensive school capital plan in 20 years,” Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh said.

Cost for overhauling city’s schools could top $1b, Walsh says
By Jeremy C. Fox Globe Staff September 29, 2015

Mayor Martin J. Walsh pledged Tuesday to bring the city’s deteriorating public schools into the 21st century, but he warned that the effort won’t be cheap.

“You’re probably talking over a billion dollars,” Walsh said at an event at the McKay K-8 School in East Boston. “That’s just a rough estimate.”

Walsh said 65 percent of Boston school buildings were constructed before World War II, and fewer than half have been renovated.

The event Tuesday marked the formal launch of a 10-year master plan for Boston public schools facilities that Walsh announced in his State of the City address in January.

[merrily]

1. At some point before 2008, my real estate taxes more than tripled in ONE bill. They have gone up

many times since, almost every year in fact. Why the hell were real estate taxes from that bonanza of artificially inflated real estates taxes not set aside for a rainy day or special need? And wasn't the lottery supposed to pay for schools?

I'm all in favor of public spending, but we don't have to spend every cent we take in and then some every damn year.