Marblehead board given timeline for new hire

MARBLEHEAD – The Glover School Building Oversight Committee has a chairman – School Committee member Patricia Blackmer – and, as expected, Blackmer already has the 11-member panel on a schedule.In fact, she has given committee members a timeline for hiring an owner’s project manager, the first step in the process the town is following with the Massachusetts School Building Authority.The timeline includes advertising the opening this month, with a nominee ready to be reviewed by the MSBA’s Owner’s Project Manager Review Panel in October.Once the OPM is approved and hired, the committee will advertise for a designer. With the designer on board the feasibility study can proceed.The committee includes School Committee members Blackmer and Richard Nohelty, Glover-Eveleth Principal Mary Devlin, Superintendent of Schools Paul Dulac, School Business Manager Jonathan Goldfield, School Facilities Director Matty Matthews, Finance Committee member David Harris, Capital Planning Committee member Victor Wild, Teacher Fran Sheridan, community representatives David Bennet and Robert Schaeffner and School Committee Chair Amy Drinker and Town Planner Becky Curran, who serve ex officio. Alternate members include Finance Committee member Kathy Leonardson and teachers Maribeth Barrell and Diane Gora.The committee will conduct the feasibility study in collaboration with the MSBA to identify the most cost-effective and educationally sound solution to the Glover and Eveleth schools’ building needs. The town approved $395,000 for the Glover-Eveleth feasibility study last spring. The total project, if the feasibility study is successful, is estimated at $22.9 million. The costs are eligible for 40 percent state reimbursement.