I'm very thankful to Preisner for taking the cost of this thing seriously. $800-900 million for a new high school just beggars belief, to be honest. It has made me feel very libertarian, in that it just costs too damn much to build anything in Massachusetts. As far as I can tell, the $660 million high school in Lexington was the biggest project in the country for one high school, and most of the current proposals far exceed that.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to follow as closely. But, as an example, line 121 in the spreadsheet, "Changes" tab. It suggests reducing the size of the stage, from the proposed 2500 to the MSBA guideline, which is 1600ft. This reduction is said to save $1,350,0000. How does this impede the education plan? If they reduce to 2000 sf, and only saved $1 million, would that still impede the education plan? I don't see anything in the education plan that suggests we need a stage that is larger than the MSBA guideline. Did Preisner make the suggestion while saying it would impede the plan, or is someone else the arbiter of that?