Superintendent Allison updated the Westborough School Committee on June 11 about multiple summer facilities projects and asked the committee to accept a donation of classroom furniture for Armstrong School.

Allison said the district will continue ADA compliance work at Hastings that began last year, including exterior door and bathroom upgrades, and that staff access and some parking will be maintained during construction. “This project…is really about ADA compliance,” Allison said.

She also told the committee that Gibbons School will have its original gym floor, installed in 1956, removed and replaced because sanding would not be feasible. The work requires removing bleachers and dividers and addressing subfloor issues; Allison said the project is expected to start and finish over the summer and that building access will be maintained via the front entrance.

The superintendent said remaining ARPA funds will pay for paving and drainage work in the Armstrong and Gibbons parking lots to address safety, traffic flow and winter ice problems. She said summer programming that normally used those buildings has been relocated off-site or to other schools while the work proceeds.

Allison also announced an intern, a former Westborough student and current Curry College student named Ronald, who will document summer maintenance and projects for presentations and web updates.

On donations, Allison said Principal McCann had arranged for AIS, a company in Leominster, to donate used workstations and chairs to Armstrong. “The grand total is actually—I’m doing the math in my head—not very effectively: $66,000 plus about, yeah, it’s close to $10,000 in stuff,” Allison said. She asked the committee to approve accepting the items that evening.

A school committee member moved to accept the donation to Armstrong; another member seconded the motion. The motion carried unanimously, recorded as a 5–0 vote.

The superintendent also reminded the committee that updated school handbooks with redlined changes are available for review and that a possible separate sign-off for student use of artificial intelligence is being developed by the district’s AI committee for middle and high school students.

Committee members thanked staff and volunteers supporting project graduation and other end-of-year activities and noted plans to share progress and photos during the summer.

Clarifying details recorded in the meeting include the donor (AIS, Leominster), the subtotal figure Allison cited ($66,000) plus an additional amount she estimated at about $10,000 for furniture and related items, and that ARPA funds will be used for parking/paving work. The committee approved the donation that evening and will oversee projects that are scheduled to start after the school year ends and finish by the end of summer.