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SCARBOROUGH — Supporters of a scenario to build a $39 million Wentworth Intermediate State school took the heat Monday night as residents not sold on the layout grilled them at Scarborough High School.
More than 100 people attended the forum where city officials and members of the Wentworth Building Committee, which drafted the devise for the new school, answered questions about their proposal.
Scarborough voters will select whether to approve the $39 million bond on Election Day, Nov. 8.
Though many in the audience were encouraging of the new school, responding to positive comments with applause, most of the people who addressed the panel had questions about the value and scope of the plan.
Several asked why the school constraint replacement rather than renovation, and committee Chairman Paul Koziel repeated throughout the evensong that renovation is not an option.
"This school is a Ford Explorer with 500,000 miles on it," Koziel said. "The restore costs just keep adding up. ... It would be an work out in futility to continue trying to renovate that school."
Source: The Forecaster