Schools
No Voting will Take Place at Fisk School in March 2014
Expected construction will require voters to cast their ballots at a temporary location.
There will be no ballots cast next spring at Mary A. Fisk Elementary School as renovation work will be taking place at the facility.
School Board Chairman Bernie Campbell told the Salem Planning Board last week that a new location will be sought for the next Town Meeting.
He said the town moderator is in the process of trying to screen a location in town.
"I expect there will be construction fencing and very limited access," he said.
Once renovations are complete, the facility will be open again to voters, with the building's new multipurpose room a likely location for the voting booths and ballots.
Campbell said that construction is expected to be complete for the opening of school in fall 2014.
Salem voters passed a bond article in March 2013 calling for over $16 million in major renovations to Fisk and Soule Schools, along with minor renovations to Haigh School.
Campbell and other representatives from the Salem School District were in attendance at the Planning Board meeting to present those plans.
The board only has the authority to provide non-binding written comments to the School Board to the conformance or non-conformance of the plan with the town's land use regulations.
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