After the school question on Hammarö was re-submitted during an annoyed municipal council meeting last Monday, the question of a replacement school for the burnt-out school at Götetorp has now come to an end.
- It feels good. There has been a lot of debate, says Bo Henriksson (M), chairman of the local council after the evening's delegation meeting.
The bourgeois Hammarös co-operation has driven the issue of an F-6 school at Götetorp as well as an F-6 school and another preschool at Mörmon. However, the opposition in the form of the Social Democrats and the Left Party has recommended that both F-6 schools should be located at Mörmon and that only one preschool should be built at Götetorp. The latter, with the support of the party-bound councilors, received a rematch of the case on the grounds that a child impact assessment should be done.
- No child impact assessment was done before tonight's meeting. Instead, they were referring to the material previously produced, says Lillemor Larsson (V).
What do you think about it?
- I probably had no great hope of hearing. But we have at least tried. says Lillemor Larsson (V).
During the meeting this evening, the party politically unbound members swung and said yes to a new school at Götetorp, a school that is estimated to cost SEK 179 million.
"We would have liked to find a cheaper solution," says Lillemor Larsson (V) and believes that the opposition's proposal had yielded coordination gains which had made Hammarö's school system cheaper.
During the meeting, a decision was also made to allocate SEK 11 million to the demolition of the doomed Mörmoskolan. The decision on a detailed plan for the construction of a new school at Mörmon, which would also have been taken tonight, may be postponed to the next council meeting.
- S and V demanded a return request requiring a child impact assessment. Since there is no need for time, we accepted it, says Bo Henriksson (M).