Two billion dollars in school bond money – over three billion when you factor in interest – is certainly not going as far as voters hoped it would when they approved massive school bond referendums in 2020 and 2022. A lot of projects voters hoped to see with that money aren’t getting done and the commissioners are already talking about putting a new school bond referendum on the ballot in the not too distant future.
That one is expected to come in at around $550 million and school advocates say even that won’t be enough for the schools to get done what needs to be done.
Still, that $2 billion in bond money is getting spent and the Guilford County Board of Commissioners is expected to approve a $6.68 million land purchase at the board’s Thursday, Dec. 18 meeting, clearing the way for construction of a replacement Northwest Guilford Middle School in the Stokesdale area…