Warren board to weigh options for new schools

WARREN — The board of education will mull options for the construction of its new schools to address a steady decline in student enrollment.

The Ohio School Facilities Commission has three general options for the board to consider based on an analysis prepared by DeJONG Inc., a Dublin, Ohio,-based company.

Option one includes the construction of two kindergarten through eighth-grade buildings. One building will be at the Jefferson School site and the other at the Parkman Road site.

Each school will have 644 pupils, and the projected cost is $14.4 million, but the Parkman site will have extra mitigation costs.

The mitigation is necessary because the area of this site is on wetlands, and environmental prohibitions disallow buildings on wetlands.

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