Newtown: After almost eight years of discussion and planning, a warning to the victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school photo shoot near construction with the aim of offering a peaceful place for reflection.
Innovative ceremony planned next month at the location on the road where the shooting occurred which killed 20 first-class students and six educators in Newtown on December 14, 2012.
Construction will be completed before the 10th anniversary next year, officials said.
The State Bond Commission is expected to approve $ 2.5 million for the project on Friday, which will be used by the city to finance most of $ 3.7 million local voters approved in April for total warning costs.
“As a parent of a child who was killed, I was very grateful to parents who had dedicated an extraordinary time seeing this come to produce results and second for all the people involved,” said Nelba Marquez-Greene, who was 6 years old.
The old daughter, Ana, died in the shooting.
“I also thank you for giving a public place to be and reflect and hope it means our family can have privacy on the site of the grave,” he said.
The main warning area will be a feature of water with a sycamore tree in the middle and the names of the victims engraved on the wall of supporters around it.
The flow of water has been designed so that the wax that is afRir, flowers and other objects will move towards the tree and spin around it.
The path will bring visitors through various plantings, including flower gardens.
“We want to make a kind of quiet place, a place of reflection, where people can come to connect to nature, ” said Daniel Affleck, the San Francisco-based Principal of San Francisco who designed the warning.” The place where people can come and they can see the season, change, some kind of peace and way of planting will change as a reflection of the passage of time.
“The project faced several challenges after the city was created a special commission to oversee warning planning in the fall of 2013.
Some of the proposed sites were rejected, including one near the club hunting where shots can be heard, and officials cut the project costs down from $ 10 million because voters will not deploy it.
In the city referendum in April, residents agreed to spend $ 3.7 million on warnings with votes 963 to 748.
Selectman Daniel Rosenthal, Administrator TOP city, said he believed most of the local resi dents support the concept of warning, t Etapi some are concerned about costs and paying higher taxes.
“It is important that what is happening in the serious way,” Rosenthal said.
” It’s worth having a place where people can go and reflect and remember what is missing that day.
“Around Newtown on Wednesday, some people expressed a mixture of feelings about warnings and how it was funded.
“It shouldn’t be out of the taxpayers dollars because we got millions and millions of dollars from all over the world,” said a resident who will only identify himself by his first name, Ann.
Some other people who expressed concern about the warning also refused to give their names.
A man said, “The whole school must be a warning.
” After shooting, around $ 12.5 million in donations poured into Newtown.
After a public dispute about where the money must go, in the end $ 7.7 million goes to 40 The family is directly influenced by the shooting, with mass going to the 26 families.
The rest are set aside for mental health services to the families of victims, respondents and first teachers and students from school.
Newtown Resident Carol Bobel, a retired teacher who works at Sandy Hook Elementary School before the shooting , said the memorial was important to ensure the massacre was never forgotten.
“It would be nice to have a place where everyone can go and just reflect, ” he said.” We can’t forget it.
We see the world now.
We think that (shooting) will change many things, and it’s not.
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