Parker Getting a Coat for the Winter

The town is laying plans to winterize the old Parker Memorial School complex.
 
After a walk-through, a public hearing and a Town Council appropriation of $25,000 from the General Fund's unassigned fund balance last week, work on the property will, as Town Manager Steven Werbner says, "get us through the winter."

"The Board of Education has officially turned over the building to the town and a significant amount of work needs to be done in order to secure and clean the building," Werbner said.

Werbner said the preferred use is senior housing. 

The money approved last week was placed in the Parks and Facilities professional services account. Werbner said Department of Public Works officials have outlined several short-term priorities for the property: 

• Take down the modular classroom.
• Replace broken windows. 
• Hire a contractor to take down the ceiling and remove carpeting. 
• Build block walls where they were taken down for the modular classrooms.
• Remove the canopy. 

Attached are images from last week's Town Council walk-through from the lens of resident James Gifford.