A special meeting of the Danbury City Council is being held Monday night about bonding for school projects.  The meeting will be at 7:30pm in Council Chambers of City Hall.  The proposed ordinance authorizes $207.9 million in borrowing for construction and property transfer for the Danbury Career Academy Secondary School concept and associated school improvements, updates and renovation at DHS, King Street and Hayestown Avenue. 

This replaces the two prior ordinances to combine the projects into one bond and one question for the voters at a referendum, still to be scheduled. 

A public hearing on the bonding was originally scheduled for Wednesday at 7pm, but the notice of this new meeting says they anticipate it will be March 28th. 

Of the $207,900,000 some $6,600,000 will be transferred fromt he SNAPP 2020 School Ordinance and $1,400,000 from the Danbury Career Academy Ordinance.  The DCA ordinance included a $2,400,000 transferred allocation from the SNAPP 2020 School Ordinance. 

$164,000,000 is being requested for the Danbury Career Academy.  That amount includes the purchase of a 270,000 square foot building and 24 acre property on Apple Ridge Road, along with a 6.4 acre site. 

The other $43,900,000 is for projects at Danbury High School including updates, renovations and code compliance improvements to the science labs, nurse site and bathrooms, HVAC equipment and duct evaluation, supply and condensate pipe abatement, and ADA accessible routes to the stadium bleachers. ADA compliance at Hayestown Avenue Elementary and a new roof for King Street Primary have also been proposed. 

The previously approved $99,000,000 bond for the Danbury Career Academy project become void with the vote on a new bond package.