Province doubles scope of expansion to crowded north Nanaimo school
NANAIMO — The province will fund a much larger expansion at Hammond Bay Elementary than it originally pledged.
Education minister Rob Fleming announced Thursday upwards of $18-million for a wing of 12 new classrooms will be spent by the province on the chronically overcrowded north Nanaimo school.
He said construction is expected the break ground this year and be finished in time to open the 2021 school year.
“This school needs renewal, it’s not the right size for this community, this part of Nanaimo,” Fleming told reporters at the school.