The Middleton School District hopes to build another elementary school to mitigate overcrowding issues, and a $19.9 million, 20-year bond will appear on May 20’s ballot with the hopes of funding it.
The measure requires a two-thirds majority to pass, and this will be the fifth time that such a proposal has gone up for election since 2018. Three of the failed attempts took place that year, and the most recent was in 2022, when the $54 million bond also included plans for a career and technical education center.
Superintendent Mark Gee said the bonds’ cost to residents was a primary reason for past failures. In 2022, it totaled $161 per $100,000 of property value…