LACONIA — City councilors approved the use of $85,000 in impact fees for the school district to mend a broken sewer pipe underneath the high school on Union Avenue during their meeting on Monday night.

“A sewer line in the oldest section recently failed, resulting in sewage backing up into the classrooms,” Mayor Andrew Hosmer said.

The 130-foot-long hallway 1A, the oldest portion of the high school closest to the nearby Thai food restaurant and laundromat, has for several years proven problematic for school administrators. For the past several years, district business administrator Diane Clary said, a sewer pipe underneath the floor there has been backing up.

“Our budget is, as you know, pretty tight this year,” Clary said Monday night. “We, in past years, might have had the extra funds

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