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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh then how can they close Wootton then? Where is the money for that? [/quote]

They save money with Wootton moving to Crown because the holding school scenario means that the upgrades which would be needed to keep old-Wootton open as that "swing space" would be far lower than that envisioned with a Wootton revitalization.  This is presaged by Taylor's saying about SSIMS that anyone could live with such conditions for a couple of years while in a holding facility (not saying, myself, that that is a good call on his part).

And then they save time by taking Wootton, itself, off of the list of those schools needing to use the swing space, allowing a different school's rebuild/revitalization to get addressed that much sooner.  The entire portfolio is way behind on capital projects, and they need to streamline where they can.

They [i]would[i] save money/time with the SSIMS population moving to Sligo/Eastern/TPMS, of course, for similar reasons.  [i]That[/i] would be a true closure, as opposed to Wootton's relocation, where the latter only is possible because of the combination of the existing new build at Crown and the downturn in projected enrollment.  The true delta, when compared to baseline rebuild/revitalization, for the improvements to expand Sligo and Eastern to accommodate the SSIMS population, net of the cost (not to mention time) savings to other projects from having the SSIMS facility available for holding, does not compare favorably with the cost of a full SSIMS rebuild, which really is what would be needed, there.

Again, not saying that going with super-sized schools is a good call.  There are the community effects, long-term system capacity/capacity distribution and conditions across the facility portfolio resulting from each potential course of action to consider, as well.[/quote]

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