Any dollars dedicated to Saskatoon’s City Centre Project, from the provincial budget estimates tabled on the final day of the Legislature Wednesday, will be used for planning and design work.

The Saskatoon Public Schools Board Chair says they are anticipating a facility around the 35 million dollar mark and it would be a consolidated elementary school to replace Princess Alexandra, King George and Pleasant Hill elementary schools.

Colleen MacPherson says those schools, combined, have deferred maintenance costs of 68 million dollars.

The facility would be built to allow them to partner so it is a modern educational facility but also an opportunity to provide more services to that neighbourhood.

MacPherson says possible partners could include the City of Saskatoon providing something like a branch library or recreational facility or the Tribal Council providing health services.

As of the beginning of the school year we are in, which would be September 30, there are 402 students enrolled between the three schools.