LAFAYETTE, La. — The Lafayette Parish School Board signed off on final construction budgets Thursday for three building projects, locking in guaranteed maximum prices that let work move forward on a new middle school and elementary campus and two elementary wing additions.
The board’s consent agenda carried all three items unanimously. The Broadmoor Elementary wing addition came in at $7,657,100. The Paul Breaux Elementary and Middle School project landed at $37,664,042. The combined Westside/Milton wing addition was set at $9,503,850, putting the total construction commitment across the three projects at roughly $54.8 million.
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What the Three Budgets Cover
The Broadmoor and Westside/Milton items fund new permanent classroom wings, part of a district-wide effort to move students out of portable buildings and into brick-and-mortar space. The Paul Breaux figure covers construction on the elementary and middle school project tied to the new K-8 campus already under construction in north Lafayette.
Superintendent Francis Touchet told the board the vote sets the projects in motion.
“It will allow us to be able to proceed, as far as getting the actual project started and making sure that these amounts that we are basically asking for is approved so that these projects can actually begin and end for the beginning of the 27/28 school year,” Touchet said.
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