Dallas Center-Grimes board accepts petition, votes to order $88 million bond election for November

The Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District board on Monday accepted a petition signed by 711 residents and voted to place a $88,000,000 general-obligation bond question on the November 4, 2025 ballot.

The petition, delivered to the board during the meeting by district staff, “ask[ed] the board to set an election for construction of $88,000,000 to reconstruct, repair, improve, remodel, furnish, equip portions of the high school, including facilities and spaces supporting extracurricular activities at the high school campus, to construct, furnish equipped additions to the existing high school building, to reconstruct, repair, improve, remodel, furnish, and equip portions of the existing middle school building in Dallas Center, Dallas Center, and Northridge Elementary buildings to make safety, security, and technology improvements, and playground and site improvements at all elementary buildings and the middle school building, and to improve, furnish, and equip Oakview athletic facility, and reconstruct, repair, improve, remodel, furnish, and equip the existing transportation and operations facility, including the construction of 1 additional building and parking lot improvements and improving the site,” a…