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[email protected] ‘Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.’ Friday, July 9, 2010 Ellis Tech $84M project awaits re-bidding Sports BY MATT SANDERSON to get on the July 30 Bond VILLAGER STAFF WRITER Commission agenda to have their DANIELSON — Harvard H. Ellis projects move forward. Technical High School is one of five With surrounding public high saved at state technical high schools with schools in the Quiet Corner — such bids for major renovations that have as Tourtellotte Memorial High been stymied by the recession and School, Plainfield High School and delays at the state level. most recently,nearby Killingly High An $84 million renovation and School — receiving major overhauls schools addition was approved by the State in recent years, Ellis Tech’s project Board of Education in 2002 and by was approved nearly a decade ago the General Assembly in 2003, but and relies entirely upon the climate the state Department of Public of the state and its budget, while NEW BUDGET Works (DPW) cancelled the school’s public school project bonding relies bids, including its lowest bid, in about three-quarters on state reim- GOES INTO early 2009, and the project has been bursement and the remaining tab is picked up by local taxpayers. waiting for reauthorization from File photo the Office of Policy and According to Principal Brian EFFECT Management (OPM) to begin the re- Mignault, Ellis Tech has planned Harvard H.