Planning Begins on East Hampton High School Renovation

With the approval of a majority of East Hampton voters now in place, school officials met this past week to lay out a schedule on how it wants to proceed with a $52 million renovation plan.

The East Hampton Board of Education Building Committee held its first post-referendum meeting on Thursday where it met with the senior project manager of the Capitol Region Education Council (CREC), Jim Giuliano, The Middletown Press reported.

Giuliano told the committee that the pre-vote work is pleasantly under budget, and that he plans on completing a proposal to send to the state by June 21, The Press reported.

Because the project is being billed as “renovate-to-new,” meaning the district will demolish a portion of the building to renovate it rather than gutting the whole property for a new structure, East Hampton is poised to receive about 52 percent reimbursement for the high school project.

The plan calls for demolishing two 1970s-era wings of the school considered "outdated", and adding a new science and technology block. It will also renovate the library and media center, and add a new gymnasium.