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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reasonable?[/quote]

Nope, the Ellington costs are ridiculous.

But how about Capital City, as a charter example?  $24 million for 1,000 students.[/quote]

Interesting example since they hired the same builder DGS chose for Murch.

"Capital City invested more than $24 million in the city-owned facility through a state-of-the-art renovation. In addition to beautiful classroom spaces, the facility includes a multi-level library, four science labs, three computer labs, three art rooms, three music rooms, a black box theatre, a gymnasium, and fitness center. Seven acres of outdoor space include athletic fields, a garden, and two playgrounds."

MCN is also the builder at Murch and yet they want $88 million to give no science room, no computer lab, no fitness room, no garden, no black box theatre, one art room, one music room, not enough classrooms, a gym smaller than fire code requires for the school to gather together, a smaller than ed spec. library, and less than a acre left for play space.

Explain that.  MCN needs to reexamine their heads and bid this project at budget. Enough of fleecing the city off the backs of little kids.[/quote]

It's been expressed earlier in this thread, but it's pretty much a known thing that the contractors and subcontractors and various other players who are in the know can basically charge 50-100% more for any project overseen by DGS.   Murch/Capital City aren't quite an exact comparison because Murch will involved a lot of new construction and underground work, which is VERY expensive, but I am sure if a charter was doing the same amount of work at Murch the price tag would come in at something like $60 million instead of $88.  [/quote]

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