We had our first meeting of the High School Project Management Advisory Committee today. The meeting was a good get-to-know-you type of meeting, and it gave everyone a solid understanding of the scope of the project.
One very interesting bit of news that came out during the meeting is that as of now, the plan is to have one home football game held in Milford. All the other "Home" games will be held at a neutral site such as Souhegan.
It now looks like the August 31st game against Souhegan will be held in Milford! This is usually our biggest rivalry, and will be great to have it on our own home turf. We need all the psychological advantages that we can get since they are usually such a tough opponent.
The plan until just recently was that there would be no home games this year. This was needed to allow the track and field renovation plan to move forward at a pace that would enable the project to be complete in time for the fall of 2008 season. There were a bunch of assumptions that led to the project plan being structured this way.
There have been some changes in some of the assumptions, and one is that the Architect (David Laurin) is submitting the site plan review for a "fast-track" approval that, if granted, will allow us to change the sequence of site construction activities and get more things done this year.
I had not heard of the fast-track approval process before now, but supposedly, this process has been used successfully by a few school districts in the past. This process has the potential for turning a permitting process from a couple of months cycle time to less than two weeks.
This is great news if this does occur as is currently planned. It will be nice for the seniors to get to play at least one home game on the home turf, and not miss out on the home field experience in total.
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