Roslindale school playground destroyed in arson fire

If they've got the funds in their operating budget. I think the first step is seeing which pot has the money and then getting the OK to get at that money.

Sadly, I don't believe there is a process to replace "as-is." as we might find reasonable. Also we are at the end of a fiscal year, and the school department budget is already under harsh criticism, and certainly something like this is not in next year's budget either.

All of the playgrounds, in parks and schoolyards, are not built by the City and its own construction people. These are all built by outside contractors that specialize in these things. As noted in the other threads, there will be a process to clean up, design, and build something new in its place. The process includes bidding this out to a designer, then a contractor that will facilitate the design. Both will have to meet certain criteria as set forth by the city associated with experience, cost, and whether they have a past relationship with the city in such endeavors, and whether that was a good or bad experience. New safety standards will also have to be met.

That is not an easy process and it is time consuming.

There are efforts underway elsewhere in Roslindale to rebuild playgrounds at Fallon Field and Healy Field to improve their design and accessibility. There have been numerous public meetings ongoing for months. The build-out of Fallon is upcoming and the design phase for Healy is still underway. These all have budgetary constraints as well. Yes, people can raise funds and help pay for these things but no matter how this is cut up, we are quite a few months out on this - maybe longer.

Many of the play areas such as that at Sumner no longer meet current standards (as such) and the ever-changing face of Roslindale is bringing new families and new ideas in to contribute to the public input process. Given this play area is used by a broad community beyond the kids who attend the school. it is likely public meetings that will include school families, abutters, and the community at-large when they do happen. When... is anyone's guess. This loss just happened.

People may want to research how the Conley School on Poplar St did their play area build-out a few years ago. That was built in part, if memory serves me correctly, through fund-raising efforts as well as public (city) monies.

This is a terrible loss to the kids at the school and to the others in the community, including the kids from our day care at the community center, who used it a couple of afternoons every week.

As other threads suggest, there was a similar destructive fire, yet to be solved, at the Ohrenberger School in West Roxbury last year.