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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE) - Administrators for Clovis Unified School District took media members and assemblage members connected a circuit of Nelson Elementary contiguous to show however wealth from a $400 cardinal facilities enslaved would beryllium enactment to use.
The Clovis Unified schoolhouse committee voted to nonstop the enslaved to the Nov. 5 ballot astatine its gathering Wednesday night.
Nelson Elementary, built successful 1957, is scheduled for a $20 cardinal modernization task if the enslaved passes successful November.
Assistant Superintendent of Facilities Denver Stairs walked guests done the schoolhouse and pointed retired the 1950s architecture and 1970s-style finishes inside.
"The colors present are greenish and yellow, but this awesome 70s countertop [in that] bully burnt orange. This is 1 of the things that does thing but for day the construction," Stairs said.
Stairs says Nelson Elementary would acquisition a "facelift" including upgrading classrooms, the multipurpose room, the kitchen, and unit spaces.
"We privation to marque definite our assemblage and students consciousness pridefulness and we would beryllium naive if we didn't deliberation that that starts with however their field looks and however they consciousness erstwhile they locomotion connected that campus," District superintendent Corrine Folmer, Ed.D., said.
The modernization task astatine Nelson Elementary would beryllium conscionable 1 of galore modernization projects crossed the district.
"We marque definite that there's a task for each schoolhouse successful our territory and with a territory of our size sometimes that's difficult," Stairs said.
If passed, the enslaved would besides acceptable speech $180 cardinal to implicit the Terry P. Bradley Educational Center, the aboriginal location of Clovis South. Without that money, Stairs said the precocious schoolhouse whitethorn not beryllium acceptable by the intended opening day successful the Fall of 2025.
In addition, if the enslaved fails Clovis Unified volition not beryllium capable to entree wealth from Prop. 2, which is besides connected the ballot this Nov. If Prop. 2 passes, California schools indispensable person a existent enslaved to person reimbursement money, according to Stairs.
Stairs and Folmer expressed gratitude and pridefulness successful keeping the spot taxation complaint the aforesaid with this latest enslaved measure. The existent taxation complaint is $155 per $100,000 of spot worth and it's been the aforesaid for 12 years. This enslaved measurement would widen the existent complaint for a longer period.
"It is little than immoderate of our neighboring districts, similar Fresno, Central, and Sanger," Folmer said.
A afloat past of the taxation complaint appraisal and the implicit enslaved substance tin beryllium recovered online astatine cusd.com/2024bond.
