While the possibility of totally renovating or rebuilding Watertown Middle School appeared to be over, some members of the School Building Committee brought up strategies that they said could still allow the project to happen.

The Middle School was a major item on the School Building Committee’s agenda on Sept. 17. The meeting followed the Sept. 9 City Council meeting where City Manager George Proakis told the Council that he would not recommend that Watertown try to rebuild or fully renovate the Middle School . He said that the price tag of around $112 million was too much above the $84.7 million the City had budgeted for the project.

“If you tried at $112 million and you continue to look at the other uncertainties and the other circumstances surrounding what’s going on in the City, I

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