Sunday, November 20, 2016

School trailers will stay for now


From the Queens Chronicle:

The School Construction Authority has no immediate plans to remove 70 of the trailers being used as portable classrooms on school grounds across the borough, agency officials told Borough Board members Monday.

“We go at them as we can find solutions,” said Michael Mirisola, director of external affairs at the SCA.

The agency went over its amended 2015-19 capital plan with board members, detailing the plans to build and renovate schools in Queens district by district, but it was the part about the trailers — known as transportable classroom units — that most interested the community board chairpersons and a few City Council members who showed up to the meeting.

The capital plan, as it stands, has $450 million allocated for the removal of the units, but before they can be taken away, a plan must be developed to seat the children in them back in their school or an addition built onto it.

Right now, there are 17 Queens schools with such a plan, though some details still need to be hammered out.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

If we deported more, we wouldn't need the trailers.

Anonymous said...

Didn't BP Katz promise to remove these trailers? Part of her "if it's good for families, it's good for Queens" crap...

JQ LLC said...

This setting is cruel to me. Those cans must be freezing in the winter and boiling on exceptionally warm or hot spring days.

And they look like mini-Gitmo's or military barracks.

Anonymous said...

I went to school and had classes in the trailers...it wasn't too bad in the winter. The one bad thing about them was that the bathroom was pretty much right in the classroom, so nobody ever wanted the seats closer to the bathroom.

Anonymous said...

Instead of building these hotels why not build schools?
After all the mayor feels the outer boroughs do not get the tourism like Manhattan.

Anonymous said...

We can't get rid of them because too much of the city's budget is going toward housing the homeless and paying the absurd $4 thousand a month to unscrupulous "hotel" owners.

Anonymous said...

Yet Diblasio is going to spend millions more on shelters instead of new school buildings. I just dont get it!!

Anonymous said...

An excellent argument for ending citizenship for children born to immigrants.

Anonymous said...

>An excellent argument for ending automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants.

Fixed that for you.