There will be a Special Meeting of the Danbury City Council tonight about the Danbury Career Academy.  Council members are being asked to look at a Purchase and Sale Agreement, Appropriations and Funding Authorizations and an amended bond issuance.  The meeting is at 7:30pm in Council Chambers at City Hall. 

A corporate building on Apple Ridge Road on the City's west side has been proposed to be retrofitted for 1,100 high schoolers and 360 middle schoolers, since it has plenty of parking, a cafeteria and a gym.  Cartus plans to have employees keep working from home, as they have been throughout the pandemic and is looking to sell the site. 

Danbury residents voted for a $99 million bond for the school, but due to inflation and supply chain issues, the cost estimate rose to  $144.5 million when the City was looking to locate in three pods of the former Matrix Building at the Summit. The state agreed to cover 80 percent of eligible costs on the original figure.