The Gloucester School Board continued its attempt last week to find more funding for planned renovations at Gloucester High School. A discussion at the board’s July 16 meeting continued from where it left off in a June 24 meeting between the school board and county supervisors. 

Supervisors had decided to cap the amount of county funding at $36.6 million, while the school board was seeking about $54 million. The school board looked last week at canceling its request for a new $7.1 million transportation facility and renovating the existing facility instead.

The change would include moving school bus parking to the new Page Middle School site, freeing up more land at the existing facility. That would leave about 25 acres at the old Page site that could be transferred to the county for economic development, if the school board approved the transfer. 

School division construction supervisor Scott Shorland estimated that renovations at the transportation facility would c...