Voters in the Greene County Community School District will be asked to approve a $20 million bond issue for construction to create a campus for grades 5-12 at the high school location in Jefferson.
The board will take action at a special meeting June 24 at noon to place the question on the ballot for the regular school election Sept. 8.
According to school superintendent Tim Christensen, the requested tax rate to pay the bonds would be $2.70 (per thousand dollars of taxable valuation).
Community members are in the process of circulating petitions for the required signatures for the election. The petitions will be accepted at the June 24 meeting and then submitted to the county auditor’s office.
The board has not yet made public its proposal for schematics for the building. The long range goal of the board is to have all Greene County attendance centers in Jefferson, with children in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade attending the elementary building on E. Russell St in Jefferson and grades 5-12 on the south campus. There has been no public discussion yet of possible uses for the Grand Junction building or the current middle school building, both of which would be vacated by the school.
