HAYSVILLE, Kan. (KSNW) — USD 261 is preparing a $78 million bond to repair and improve existing buildings. The district says the bond will not increase the mill rate.
“We have a lot of maintenance items that we have to kind of get back under control,” said Craig Ryan, assistant superintendent of finance and business operations. “We have roofs and HVAC units and parking lots and some of the not fun stuff to really do. But we’re also looking at the potential of maybe doing an extension with a CTE building and doing some things like that on the side to help students be successful after high school.”
The career and technical education building allows students to get certified for different jobs and things that they can get right out of high school with a certificate. Ryan says the program is becoming so popular that the building needs an expansion to accommodate more kids.
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“We have basically three options,” Ryan said. “You have the first option, do nothing, and basically, that’s not a great strategy because things are going to continue to deteriorate. You also could use capital outlay, and we could do a 20-year-plan and maybe get about three years down the road before we would find out that would not be a good strategy. We just don’t have enough in our capital outlay fund to be able to do the improvements we need to do.”