Daily Five: Fire District May Have More Time To Plan Use Of Former Noank School

1.  Today is Tuesday, June 5.  The National Weather Service predicts cloudy skies, a high temperature of 62 degrees and scattered showers, mainly after 10 a.m. The low will drop to 51 degrees tonight.

2.  The Groton Town Council will vote during at 7:30 p.m. today whether to give the Noank Fire District more time to develop a plan for the former Noank School. The district met with the council’s committee of the whole on May 8, and asked the town to lease the property to the fire district.

The Town Council will vote instead on a resolution that would give the district six more months to come up with a “multi-year plan” for using the school that includes cost estimates for work and financing options.

3.  The school department has opened the bids to replace the boiler at S.B. Butler School and the estimates range from $85,000 to $148,000, according to a June 1 memo by Interim Superintendent Randall Collins.

Bids for the work to remove asbestos floor tile at Mary Morrisson Elementary will be opened this week, and four companies are interested.

4.  The Groton Senior Center has received three awards from the Connecticut Association of Senior Center Personnel, according to a report from the town manager.

The senior center received the Intergenerational Award for its program reading with third graders at Claude Chester Elementary; the Leadership, Civic Engagement and Volunteer Development Award for its concert to raise money for the Salvation Army; and the Partnership Award for its medical transportation program in conjunction with the Eastern Connecticut Transportation Consortium and senior centers in East Lyme, Waterford, New London and Ledyard. Congratulations!

5.  The U.S. Coast Guard Academy recently donated 11 used laptops to Fitch High School, according to a memo by Collins. The school district’s technology department is also continuing work on installing wireless access in Groton’s elementary schools.