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This is pretty rich. After nearly a decade of level-funding the schools and thereby forcing deferred maintenance on the WPS, now the City Council wants to look into building new instead? As chiggins stated, the problems are district-wide thanks to years of neglect and one 1100 student school will eat up all of the money (and more) currently earmarked to make those improvements (which are hardly "cosmetic"). The taxpayers via the City Council have shown no appetite for building new and not sure why that would change. Of course, that is, unless a shiny new school can be used as another political wedge issue against the school admin and school committee for the sake of drawing attention away from the city side spending increases (nearly 100% of all tax increases since 2009 or so)....