Report On School Buildings Due Out Tuesday : Could Cost Taxpayers $3 Billion
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The numbers produced by a 16 month study of
school buildings around the state are expected to be at the heart
of debate in the legislative session that begins in January.
Legislators are to learn today the cost of bringing Arkansas
6,569 public school buildings up to a constitutionally
adequate standard.
The state has engaged in a 16-month effort to determine the
condition of the its more than 84 million square-feet of school
buildings. A volunteer task force is scheduled to make its final
report.
Task force leader Scott Copas is warning legislators to prepare
for some eye-popping numbers.
Legislators say they fear that the price tag for repairs could
be as high as three billion dollars.
