The City of Windsor is giving the Catholic school board one more year to secure funding for a new Catholic Central High School at the Windsor Arena site.
At the same time, city administration is developing a re-purposing study and will consider other proposals moving forward.
"The community will be told that this is a concurrent process. We don't want to get everyone's hopes up that the repurposing will actually happen because city council's first choice and preference is to have a high school at that location," says Mayor Drew Dilkens. "We want to put ourselves in the position to make sure that we have the repurposing study done so that we can execute something when the final decisions made on Catholic Central."
The Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board has been requesting funding for a new Catholic Central for the last seven years without success. Students are asking Premier Kathleen Wynne come witness the state of the school for herself.
The plan to locate the new Catholic Central High School at the arena site was first introduced in 2013.
