GREENFIELD — Town Council has voted to appropriate $800,000 for a project to move the Greenfield Public School Administrative Offices to the middle school on Federal Street.
The School Department voted unanimously last month to support the plan, which would involve renovating unoccupied space on the school’s first floor. The offices are currently on the Davis Street site, where plans to build a new senior center are still up in the air.
The funding was approved with very little discussion at the end of the 5½-hour meeting Wednesday.
“I think we all know that this needs to happen,” Council President Brickett Allis said.
The build-out would cost roughly $750,000, which chairman Timothy Farrell said would be paid for with a 10-year bond. It would not have a direct impact on the school’s budget, he said. Daniel Pallotta, of the Norwell engineering firm P3, said he hopes to have construction underway by early May and for move-in to be possible by early July.
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