I would like to share with my fellow town of Winslow taxpayers my belief of a vote taken in the late spring by the Winslow Town Council concerning the foreseeable future of the old Winslow Junior Higher constructing (“Proposal to promote previous Winslow Junior Superior School rejected once again,” May perhaps 18).
About five years in the past, a committee was shaped to review the probable employs for this building and house. Delayed fairly by COVID constraints, this committee experienced been tasked with obtaining a purchaser for this creating and property or demolishing the building.
Kennebec Valley Group Action Program was selected as the viable and probable buyer. KVCAP has been accomplishing great get the job done in our communities for lots of several years and has an fantastic track report. This team rehabbed the Gerald Lodge in downtown Fairfield, developing senior housing whilst retaining the integrity of the developing and its record. KVCAP proposed to purchase the Winslow Junior Higher from the town of Winslow for $1 and acquire on the complete responsibility of all renovation prices. Their prepare was to make 41 very affordable senior housing unites that would in shape the wants of our growing older population.
In addition, this assets would go from nontaxable to a tax-spending entity. The city of Winslow and its taxpayers would be spared the expenses for a $50,000 environmental impression examine, architectural ideas, and the approximately $14 million to rehab this setting up.
On the other hand, if the Winslow Town Council made the decision to change down the KVCAP present and decide on a prepare to keep possession of the outdated Junior Large and demolish it, the price to the taxpayers would be everywhere in between $500,000 and $1,000,000.
The Winslow Town Council voted down the KVCAP strategy, leaving the taxpayers to address the cost of the environmental examine and the probable demolition of the setting up. The ultimate final result: a quite expensive vacant whole lot!
Susan Morrill
Winslow
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