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September 30, 2011
Ms. Katherine P. Craven
Executive Director
Massachusetts School Building Authority
40 Broad Street, Suite 500
Boston, MA 02109
Dear Ms. Craven:
We write in response to the communication from Associate General Counsel Christine Nolan (July 18, 2011) regarding our facilities
planning efforts. Specifically, we were asked to provide details about our plans to use facilities, particularly those that we have
recently closed or repurposed. Additionally, she requested information about our plans for future use of our buildings, especially thosethat are currently vacant.
We would like to request an extension until November 30, 2011, to give you a complete facility reuse plan. In the meantime, we will
provide answers to all the other questions you raised, and will share an update on our reuse proposals by October 14, 2011, with a
formal reuse plan by November 30, 2011.
As you may be aware, we began a public discussion with our School Committee and our students, families, school staff and
community stakeholders about the best use of our currently-vacant buildings. In July, we shared a proposal to the School Committee
to repurpose the Hyde Park Education Complex, and we have been holding meetings with families and stakeholders throughout
August and September to gather feedback on this proposal.
We see the Hyde Park Education Complex as a jewel in our portfolio of school facilities, due in large part to the extensive renovations
that MSBA supported in 1999. We intend to use HPEC to house one of our district schools in the Fall of 2012; the proposal we arecurrently exploring is for HPEC to become the new home of the Boston Latin Academy, one of the premier public secondary schools
in Boston and in the entire nation.
That said, we are not yet finished with our public engagement and planning process, and therefore are not able to give you a definitive
plan for the re-use of all of our facilities at this date. We intend to provide a preliminary update to our School Committee on October
12, 2011, including a more robust description of our plans for how we will use our facilities to further our academic plan. We will
send a copy of that presentation to you that week, after it has been presented to the School Committee. We anticipate holding
additional community meetings to get feedback as well as have the School Committee accept this proposal. We will send you an
updated and final description of our re-use plan by November 30, 2011.
The attachments provide answers to most of the specific questions that you raised in your July 18, 2011 letter. Please let me know if
you need clarification on any of this information; our staff will be happy to discuss this in detail with you.
Thank you, again, for the support that the Massachusetts School Building Authority has provided to the Boston Public Schools. We
look forward to continuing to work together to ensure that all our students receive the high quality education they deserve in equally
high quality facilities and learning environments.
Sincerely,
Cc: Matthew Donovan Carol R. Johnson
Christine Nolan Superintendent
oston Public SchoolsOffice of the Superintendent