The Alexander Central School District has proposed a $12.6 million capital improvement package that includes lights for the football field, a new transportation building and classroom improvements.
The district will host a public forum on the package at 7 o'clock tonight in the auditorium.
There is an election schedule Monday to ask district voters whether to approve the package.
The transportation building is the largest part of the package, with an estimated cost of $6.9 million.
The proposal calls for the demolition of the existing transportation facility and the construction of a new bus garage.
The cost of lighting the football field is expected to come in at more than $400,000.
The district is proposing borrowing more than $10 million and spending $1.9 million from the capital reserve fund.
The ballot proposition anticipates an increase in the tax levy to help pay for the project but doesn't specify how much the levy might increase, if at all.
Why not a line item vote? Is
Why not a line item vote? Is the lighting for the football field bait? Why is the current bus barn inadequate? It seems they always find a need to build a new monument to themselves. Twelve million is pretty serious money for a small school district, especially one that can't afford to share it's facilities with its own local benefactors. With the economy riding high, it's easy to splurge with the people's money. The benefactors will be holding the bag if the economy tanks again. Which many economists are predicting.
According to another local
According to another local source, NY state is expected to pick up the vast majority of the cost of the "package". So i'm sure the "reasoning" for the "package" is so it will all be primarily funded by the state. The main thing I take away from the public forum is that a shared facility would be the most intelligent use of taxpayer money. The administration doesn't have the will or the wherewithal to make that happen.