COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater Community School District Board of the Education approved a resolution during a special meeting on Monday night that would put a $53 million bond proposal on the May ballot.
Superintendent Terry Ann Whelan says there would be no millage increase in the proposal which would be used to fund an expansion as well as infrastructure and remodeling improvements at Coldwater High School.
The bond proposal in May will not include a request to build a high school auditorium, it will just be for work at the high school.
The high school was constructed in the 1950’s. Videos posted by the district last fall leading up to last November’s bond question showed parts of the original portion of the school starting to show its age. It also showed staff and students trying to deal with a lack of air conditioning during the warm months and heating issues during the winter time.
After supporting a new Branch County Jail, a new fourth and fifth grade elementary school and the Enhanced 911 Communications project in recent years, taxpayers in the Coldwater School district defeated the school district’s $50 million bonding proposal last November 1,929 to 1,686. It was only approved in the City of Coldwater’s first and third wards. All of the townships that feed into the school district said no.
In other business, the board approved multiple bids for up to $3.8 million worth of improvement projects during the summer months at Jefferson and Larsen Elementary Schools and at Legg Middle School. The funding would come from proceeds left over from a 2018 bonding issue.
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