WWW.QNS.COM RIDGEWOOD TIMES JANUARY 23, 2020 11
School Construction Authority presents
highlights of capital plan for District 24
BY ANGÉLICA ACEVEDO
AACEVEDO@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
Representatives from the School
Construction Authority (SCA)
presented the 2020 proposed
amendments to its five-year capital
plan for District 24 at the Community
Education Council 24’s meeting on Jan.
7, and were met with some amendments
from CEC24.
Following Chancellor Richard A. Carranza
and School Construction Authority
President and CEO Lorraine Grillo’s
unveiling of a $17 billion capital plan for
fi scal years 2020-2024 — “the largest
proposed school capital plan ever,” according
to the city — SCA reps Michael
Mirisola and Danielle Schaaff off ered a
few highlights of what that will mean for
District 24’s community.
District 24 represents Ridgewood,
Maspeth, Glendale, Middle Village,
Elmhurst, Corona, Woodside and sections
of Long Island City and Sunnyside.
The SCA reps gave a breakdown of
what they said was now an $18.7 billion
proposed investment, including $7.9 billion
for over 57,000 new seats to reduce
overcrowding; $750 million to make 50
percent of elementary school buildings
partially or fully accessible and onethird
of all buildings fully accessible;
$284 million for electrical work to support
air conditioning in all classrooms
by 2021; $565.5 million in support of the
3-K and Pre-K for All Initiatives; and $750
million for technology enhancements.
The city is also investing $8.9 billion
for capacity projects, including $180 million
to remove transportable classroom
units (TCUs).
The SCA proposed 1,116 new seats with
the addition of three new schools. Two
proposed schools, one that will serve Corona
and Elmhurst and another that will
serve Maspeth and South of Woodside,
haven’t been sited yet.
The school that has been sited and will
serve the Maspeth and South Woodside
neighborhoods will be located at 69-02
Queens Blvd. It’ll have 476 seats and is
slated to open in September 2024.
To address some of the chronic overcrowding
in District 24’s schools, the
SCA will offi cially open two additions in
September 2020: the extension at P.S. 143
(known as the Louis Armstrong School
in Corona) with 980 seats and the expansion
at P.S. 128 (in Middle Village) with
440 seats.
In September 2021, they will be opening
a new school with 646 seats, I.S. 419,
at 111-10 Astoria Blvd.
Aft er the SCA’s presentation, members
of CEC24 and other residents had the
chance to ask the SCA reps questions
about how issues may become a capital
project in the fi ve-year capital plan. Some
routes include Building Condition Assessment
Surveys (BCAS), a problem reported
to the Department of Education’s
Division for School Facilities, emergency
issues, and Reso A (school‐specifi c capital
improvement or enhancement projects
funded by individual grants from New
York City Council Members or Borough
Presidents).
CEC24 also voted in a new president
for CEC24, member Phil Wong. Accardo
said she’d help Wong transition into the
role, and get ready for Chancellor Carranza’s
visit with CEC24 on March 2.
CEC24 met earlier in January. Photo: Angélica Acevedo/QNS
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