{"id":119820,"date":"2026-06-30T23:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/119820\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T23:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:56:19","slug":"merger-of-two-warsaw-middle-schools-could-cost-119-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/119820\/","title":{"rendered":"Merger of two Warsaw middle schools could cost $119 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnowwarsaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WCS-2.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"348\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WCS-2-696x348.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"WCS-2\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nStaff Report<\/p>\n<p>WARSAW \u2014 The Warsaw Community School Board on Monday officially recommended combining Edgewood and Lakeview middle schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The board also held the first of two public hearings on the extensive, multi-year project and recapped the financial plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The district\u2019s chief financial officer, Stephen Boyer, said the current preliminary cost of renovations for both schools, in today\u2019s dollars, is $108 million. Since it\u2019s a multi-year project, the estimated cost is approximately $119 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesuniononline.com\/stories\/proposed-maximum-bond-authorization-for-warsaw-schools-projects-is-143m,290253?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Times-Union reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Boyer said the district is not adding debt and that the project\u2019s financing will be aligned with debt already scheduled for retirement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The renovations at Lakeview and Edgewood will include the renovation of Lakeview and a partial renovation of Edgewood to make room for Gateway and Warsaw Area Career Center programs.<\/p>\n<p>Other aspects involve upgrades to the HVAC and electrical systems, Boyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert has said repeatedly that they have no plans to seek a referendum to help cover the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff Report WARSAW \u2014 The Warsaw Community School Board on Monday officially recommended combining Edgewood and Lakeview middle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[40187,59433,59434,182,25844,59435,2673,181,20751],"class_list":["post-119820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-chief-financial-officer","tag-combining-middle-schools","tag-edgewood-and-lakeview-middle-schools","tag-poland","tag-school-board","tag-stephen-boyer","tag-times-union","tag-warsaw","tag-warsaw-community-schools"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116841767792319146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}