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The INDEPENDENT, April 18, 2012
Banks School Board puts $10.5 million bond on May 15 ballot
The Banks School Board
voted, on February 13, to put a
$10.5 million bond on the ballot
of the upcoming May 15 elec-
tion.
This is the same bond
amount that was narrowly vot-
ed down last May. The school
board stated they believed they
would be negligent if they did
not try to pass this bond again.
Funds from the bond would
be used to tear out all old sec-
tions of the current junior high
and the old library, and remove
the portable classrooms. A two-
story wing would be built to in-
clude classrooms, plus a new
library, technology, special edu-
cation and science rooms
where the administration area
is now located.
The elementary school
would see paving of the park-
ing lot and a new gravel emer-
gency road from Oak Way to
the back of the school.
Maintenance and safety is-
sues would be addressed at
the high school, including re-
placing the heating system, re-
pairing the roof, and adding an
alarm and sprinkler system.
Site lighting would be added in
the parking lots, the bleachers
in the high school gymnasium
would be replaced, and some
classrooms would be remod-
eled to address the lack of sci-
ence facilities. The final project
would be to add an outdoor
restroom facility located cen-
trally to the fields.
Due to decreased interest
rates, the board estimates that
this bond would cost about half
of the bond sought in May,
2011. The increase in property
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taxes will exceed $.28 per
$1,000 of assessed value. Un-
til the current Elementary Bond
ends in 2027, the full bond rate
on property taxes with this new
bond would not exceed $2.35
per $1,000 of assessed value.
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