Reopening Volney to cost Youngstown schools $900,000

By DENISE DICK

denise_dick@vindy.com

YOUNGSTOWN

It will cost more than $900,000 for the city school district to reopen the old Volney Rogers school building as a Discovery School program next year.

The money — $577,000 in personnel and $336,000 in utilities, materials, supplies and equipment — would come from the general fund.

Treasurer James Reinhard said the district can afford it as long as those expenses are offset in other areas, something he says the district has time to devise.

“I hope we get kids to come back” to the district, said Superintendent Connie Hathorn.

More students means more money from the state.

The school, on South Schenley Avenue on the city’s West Side, closed this year as part of a district restructuring plan.

It will reopen next year though as Discovery 2 at Volney, a program for third through eighth grade students, offering specialty courses and core curriculum.

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