Courier-Post from Camden, New Jersey • Page 23

State Tells Delran to Cut $7.8 Million Cost of School By MIKE WOLK Courier-Post Stafj DELRAN School board officials have been told by the state department of education to lower the proposed $7.8 million cost of a new high school. Mrs. Ilene Kabel, school board president, said the directive which came from the department's division of business and finance at a meeting in Trenton two days ago, will postpone the Nov. 28 school rererendum until "early in 1973." She also said the additional review of plans and costs will mean a delay in the projected opening of the high school the township's first by fall 1974. Review Asked Mrs.

Kabel explained that Harold Bills, director of the division of business and finance, has expressed concern over the proposed cost in relation to a study of Delran's total and projected municipal debt and the school board's ability to sell bonds on a $7.8 million school. "He told us to go over our plans to cut costs further," continued Mrs. Kabel. "We were also told the three departments who review the plans won't be able to in time for a Nov. 28 referendum." Bills met with township and school officials Thursday after he had reviewed architectural plan and cost projections, according to the board president.

meet "in about three weeks" with the board to see the results of the cost-cutting meeting. Mrs. Kabel explained that the referendum ballot will pose two separate questions when it finally appears: the high school site (when it is finally chosen), building specifications and cost. and $367,000 in renovations to the Cambridge Elementary School. The total cost of the pac kage as it now stands is $8.1 million.

"This will hold up our plan to open the high school by the fall of 1974," Mrs. Kabel said, "but we have no way of knowing how long." Delran high school students are still being bused to Riverside High School as they have been since 1954. An agreement between the two towns allows Delran to continue busing its students to Riverside "until the new high school opens as long as we're working on it." PC. 2 AYS Saturday, Sunday CONTEMPORARY LIVING ROOM III m. Mt I cherish in vears to come.

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Sfl K(o) The total cost, including a swimming pool for school and community use, came to $7.8. Architect Meeting Mrs. Kabel said that the board will meet Monday night with representatives of Kramer, Hirsch and Carchidi, the architecture firm that drew up the proposed plans. The special meeting called for Monday to finalize the Nov. 28 date for the referendum has been cancelled, she said.

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