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GSCS spokesperson Derrick Kunz said that after receiving the scope funding, the division is anticipating it will get capital dollars in this year’s budget.

If successful, 2020 capital funding would go toward further planning and design for a new facility, set to be built at the former site of Sion Catholic Middle School at Seventh Street and Grosvenor Avenue.

While cost estimates are no longer part of the capital priorities submission, the Ministry of Education says the average cost of designing, building and furnishing a new school is between $25 million and $35 million.

Renovations for Bishop Klein School have been on the list of priorities for over a decade. According to GSCS, Bishop Klein’s Facility Condition Index as of 2018-19 is 32.08 per cent, putting it in the “critical” range.

Capital funding would go toward a cosmetic upgrade to the facility, GSCS CFO Joel Lloyd said.

“Bishop Klein would be similar to other schools that we’ve requested, just a renovation to the existing facilities,” Lloyd said. It’s a 60s school, it needs a full interior exterior renovation.”

That would include new flooring, paint, windows and roofing, he said, with the potential for looking at the gymnasium and library and adding on a gymnasium.

Renovations for Father Robinson School in the 2021 budget would include at a new roof and exterior masonry.

Both divisions are looking to build new east sector high schools as neighbourhoods in that area continue to expand. For 2021, Saskatoon Public School Division (SPSD) changed its request for a new east sector collegiate to a joint-use school, along with a new request for a joint-use elementary school in the same area.