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District authorizes superintendent to seek review on roughly $5M building bond, schedules public survey
Summary
The Lake of the Woods School District board authorized the superintendent to submit review-and-comment materials to the commissioner of education for a proposed capital plan that would include a roughly $5 million building bond and about $4.5 million in capital projects levy; the district plans a public survey June 10–30.
The Lake of the Woods School District board voted to authorize the superintendent to submit required review-and-comment materials to the state commissioner of education as an initial step toward a potential bond and levy referendum.
Superintendent said his recommendation was to frame the initial request around “about $5 million for a building bond” paired with approximately $4.5 million in capital-project levy funding to cover high-priority facility work such as roofing, tuckpointing, flooring and window replacement. “My recommendation is the review and comments going to be around $5 million for a building Bond,” the superintendent told the board during the working session.
The board also heard a timeline for community outreach. The district plans to work with the Donovan group on a public survey scheduled for June 10–30 to gauge voter support for the building bond, capital projects and possible operating-levy questions. The superintendent said the Donovan group is drafting survey questions and will return results to the board; he said the district is considering outreach by radio, the Trading Post insert, postcard mailings, the district website and social channels.
Board members discussed keeping the bond figure flexible while the district collects community feedback. The superintendent said the June review-and-comment filing is an administrative step and that the board would still have opportunities to adjust the final dollar amount based on survey results and public input; he noted an August deadline for board action to move a referendum forward.
Next steps identified by the board include posting the Donovan-group survey June 10–30, possible follow-up working-session review in July, and a final board decision in time to meet the board’s August scheduling deadline. The authorization motion passed during the regular meeting with the board’s approval.
Provenance: superintendent introduced the capital-plan framing and the Donovan survey (transcript discussion began roughly SEG 192 and continued through SEG 416).
