Wednesday, October 21, 2020 – 7:31am

Tisbury Eyes Edu Comp Building for Temporary School, Future Town Hall

As town and school leaders in Tisbury whittle away at the new elementary school building project, trimming costs, tweaking designs and discussing how best to manage logistics for relocating and housing students during construction, on Tuesday a new proposal came out of left field: buy the Edu Comp building to use as temporary classroom space, and later a new town hall.

Selectman James Rogers and building committee chairman Harold Chapdelaine floated the idea at a joint meeting of the selectmen and school building committee.

“Everyone knows how desperately we need space for town hall,” said Mr. Rogers, who also sits on the building committee. “We have been looking for a couple of years for a location.”

The purpose of the meeting was an update the school renovation and addition project. The building committee announced Monday that the cost of the project has been trimmed from $57 million to $53.2 million after design changes and some scaling back on size. (read more)