Scottsbluff moving to remodel all elementary schools, Roosevelt first on the list – Scottsbluff Star Herald

Students enter Lincoln Heights Elementary School at the beginning of the school year. On Monday, the Scottsbluff Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to start a modernization and renovation project for the districts five elementary schools. District officials said that the renovations, spanning five years, will not require a tax increase or additional bond.

Roosevelt Elementary School was built in 1939, some 82 years ago. Over that time, district officials said the elementary school has been renovated just once. Its second renovation in nearly a hundred years may be coming this year.

On Monday, the Scottsbluff Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to start a modernization and renovation project for the districts five elementary schools. District officials said that the renovations, spanning five years, will not require a tax increase or additional bond.

Instead, the district will draw from its stores of cash. According to the plan presented at the January school board meeting, the project would draw from the districts building fund. Presenters said the district would not require a tax increase or additional bond to pay for the renovations.

This is an important presentation this evening because, in some ways, its a combination of work and more of a beginning of work, said Scottsbluff Public Schools Superintendent Rick Myles.

Myles opened the presentation but it featured an onslaught of building principles, assistant principals and other central office administrators pitching the project to a board that in the end voted unanimously to move forward. The presenters at Mondays meeting were a small representation of a much larger team working on the renovations, Myles said.

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