On Feb. 11, the Silver Falls School District board voted 5-1 to place a capital construction and maintenance bond measure on the May 21 ballot.
Board members Wally Lierman, Tim Roth, Owen Von Flue, Julie Norris and Erv Stadeli voted in favor of placing the bond measure on the ballot. David Beeson voted against. Tom Buchholz was absent.
Superintendent Andy Bellando said bond would not exceed $36.9 million and would be repaid in 25 years or sooner. If voters approve the measure, the money would be used to fund deferred maintenance and facility upgrade projects at each of the district’s elementary schools and fund the reconstruction of the Schlador Street campus into a middle school for town students with two wings – one for fifth and sixth graders and one for seventh and eighth graders. The completion of the Schlador Street campus would result in the closure of Eugene Field Elementary School.
