Renovations at Gloucester High School will not exceed $36.6 million. The Gloucester County Board of Supervisors made the decision during a budget work session last Wednesday in the colonial courthouse to cap the project at that amount.

This, along with some other projects in the county and school’s Capital Improvement Plan for fiscal year 2020, would impact the county’s real estate tax rate by an increase of eight cents per $100 of assessed value.

During the work session, the board of supervisors received documents on what the school superintendent and school board felt are the most critical elements of what was needed to be done on the aging school. The document also included estimated costs based on the scope of the project.

At that point, at-large supervisor Ashley Chriscoe said the board finally had the information it needed to determine how much supervisors are willing to “burden the taxpayer with a tax increase to fund the necessities in the CIP going forward...