Builders, designers sought for schools
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This article was published 28/07/2023 (1041 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Manitoba government is seeking groups interested in designing, building, financing and maintaining nine new schools, including three in Westman.
According to a notice put out by the province on Thursday, all interested parties have until Oct. 4 to submit their qualifications and potentially take part in the ongoing Manitoba Schools Project, which aims to build these nine different schools by June 2027 through a public-private partnership (P3) model.
“Addressing the growing enrolment needs in our communities requires significant investment, and we remain committed to delivering the best possible outcome for Manitobans,” Consumer Protection and Government Services Minister James Teitsma said in Thursday’s news release.
Thursday’s “request for qualifications” announcement came packaged with a longer document that divulged some extra details about these three new Westman schools, two of which are located in Brandon.
The first is a kindergarten to Grade 8 school situated in the city’s southwest sector, with the building being able to accommodate a minimum of 700 students and 74 child-care spaces.
This new building is designed to provide some level of relief to the Brandon School Division, which has recently relied on modular classrooms to deal with its overcrowding problem at institutions like Maryland Park School.
The second project is a kindergarten to Grade 12 Division scolaire franco-manitobaine (DSFM) school, which is being built in the city’s southeast corner and has the capacity to house at least 250 students (and a minimum of 74 child-care spaces).
Currently, local francophone families who want to enrol their children in a DSFM school only have the option of sending them to École La Source, which is located roughly 30 kilometres outside of Brandon at CFB Shilo.
The final project is a Grade 9-12 vocational school in Neepawa, which is designed to welcome at least 500 students and carve out 74 child-care spaces.
The Neepawa area has undergone a dramatic population spike throughout the past decade, with a lot of this community growth fuelled by Filipino families arriving to work at the HyLife Foods hog processing plant.
To help make some space for an incoming wave of pupils, the Beautiful Plains School Division even opened a new Grade 5 to 8 facility (Neepawa Middle School) in early 2020 to take some pressure off Neepawa Area Collegiate.
The remaining schools mentioned in Thursday’s “request for qualifications” announcement are located in Ste. Anne, Winnipeg and West St. Paul.
Anyone interested in learning more about the Manitoba Schools Project can visit manitoba.ca/schoolsproject.
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