Today, Mayor Domenic J. Sarno, Springfield Public Schools (SPS) Superintendent Dr. Sonia Dinnall, the city’s Chief Administrative and Financial Officer (CAFO) Cathy Buono, SPS Chief Financial Officer Patrick Roach, Executive Director of Parks, Buildings, & Recreation Management Tom Ashe, Assistant Director of School Buildings Jon Carignan, Department of Capital Asset Construction Director Peter Garvey, and Chief of Staff Bill Baker joined today for the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) board meeting. Twenty-two districts including Springfield joined the MSBA’s virtual meeting today.
Mayor Sarno states, “I cannot thank Treasurer Deb Goldberg and our Massachusetts School Building Authority enough for their dedication and support we continue to work toward getting more new school buildings constructed. As I have stated before, my administration will continue to build new schools and rehab our schools and we appreciate the MSBA and their support on nearly one billion dollars of investments that we have accomplished in new school building construction and rehab. My administration is proud to have a great working relationship with the MSBA and have successfully partnered on a number of projects. We have had two very successful school building combination projects: DeBerry/Swan and Brightwood/Lincoln. We hope to move forward with another project constructing a state-of-the-art building to house both White Street School and Kensington School – both built in the very early 1900s. In addition, the Gerena school project is our number one school building priority and we remain hopeful that another state-of-the-art school building will be built to replace the current Gerena building.”
