Michigan News
(2010-05-27)
Robert Bobb
The Detroit Public Schools says it will spend more than $64 million to re-build or upgrade three Detroit schools.
The three construction projects will be the first use of more than half a billion dollars in bond money that voters approved last fall.
The district's Emergency Financial Manager, Robert Bobb, says the projects will employ mostly Detroit construction firms and skilled trades workers.
"We will create 1375 jobs, 475 direct jobs and 900 indirect jobs," Bobb says, noting that those figures are based on a state job-creation formula.
Bobb says work will begin immediately after school ends in June. He says the projects will go forward at "an aggressive pace" because all the bond money must be spent within three years.
Bobb promised to announce 17 more school construction projects with the remainder of the bond money over the next four months.
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