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Board narrows capital scope to $23 million option to avoid near-term tax impact
Summary
After discussing multiple approaches including a two-proposition plan, directors signaled preference to pursue a $23 million project focused on roofs and key heating work that staff say can be done without an immediate tax increase; full $34 million scope remains an option for later.
Board members and district staff spent extended time weighing options for a planned capital project and questioned whether a split (two-proposition) ballot would confuse voters or jeopardize later budgets.
Superintendent Douglas Scofield and staff presented two main options: a larger comprehensive project (discussed at roughly $34 million in earlier planning) that would require voter approval with a tax impact, or a trimmed scope of about $23 million that staff said could address the highest-priority items—high school roof, Wales Primary and Marilla Primary roofs and backbone electrical/heating work—using available reserves, phasing and project design to avoid an…
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