A unanimous vote puts a Scottsdale Unified School District bond request on the November ballot.<\/p>\n
As the May 12 board meeting agenda noted, \u201cThe District\u2019s most recent bond election was approved by voters in 2016 in the amount of $229 million. Those bond funds have been substantially utilized to address capital improvement<\/p>\n
priorities throughout the District.\u201d<\/p>\n
As anyone at the checkout line, restaurant or gas station can second, costs are going up \u2026<\/p>\n
Ten years later after the 2016 bond, the SUSD Governing Board gave the green light for a bond request 63% higher.<\/p>\n
Voters in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley will weigh in on the $375 million SUSD bond request in November.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s it for?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bond would focus on key District priorities, including infrastructure improvements, life-cycle maintenance of existing facilities, instructional technology needs, safety and security upgrades, and replacement of aging buses,\u201d the agenda for the May 12 meeting explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As SUSD Superintendent Scott Menzel noted recently, the process did not allow much time: \u201cJune 8 is when the ballot language is due to the county.\u201d<\/p>\n
At its April 28 meeting, the SUSD Governing Board received a huge amount of information lumped into the agenda item \u201cPotential Bond Election.\u201d<\/p>\n
The board heard about recent bond packages approved by district voters, tax projections for three options and \u201cvoter preferences.\u201d<\/p>\n
The latter was presented by paid consultant Noble Predictive Insights.<\/p>\n
A $350 million received 67% support.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes\u201d responses dropped to 54% for a $475 million bond.<\/p>\n
The May 12 board approval of the bond request came roughly a year after a split vote to shutter two SUSD schools.<\/p>\n
In the coming months, Menzel will present other possible campuses to close.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re possibly going to ask for a bond while we are talking about closing another school or two or three,\u201d Dennis Roehler, SUSD\u2019s director of Facilities and Bond Management, acknowledged at the April 28 meeting.<\/p>\n
Menzel quickly jumped in, noting \u201cour primary investment will be in schools that are thriving.\u201d<\/p>\n
Voters will also be asked to give SUSD flexibility to create income.<\/p>\n
After another approval by the board, the November ballot will also feature language \u201cauthorizing the sale, lease or exchange of district property.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A unanimous vote puts a Scottsdale Unified School District bond request on the November ballot. As the May…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":809312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,16230,1589,151503,25535,165350,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-809311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-paradise-valley","tag-phoenix","tag-scott-menzel","tag-scottsdale-unified-school-district","tag-susd-governing-board","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}