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Sergeant Bluff-Luton voters pass a $38 million bond for a new primary school
The bond clears a supermajority to replace a 1959 school
- $38 million
- bond measure voters approved Tuesday
- over 60%
- supermajority the measure needed to pass
- 1959
- year the current primary school was built
Sources: Sioux City Journal, KTIV
If you live in the Sergeant Bluff-Luton school district, a year of waiting is over. Supporters approved a nearly identical measure Tuesday after falling agonizingly short a year ago. KTIV says unofficial results show the bond cleared the over 60% supermajority it needed.
The money pays for a new kindergarten through second-grade school and for demolishing the current primary school. District administrators, led by Superintendent Chad Janzen, put the measure on the ballot after repeated indoor sewage backups from an outdated wastewater line, including one in the weeks before the election. The 1959 design also lacks a modern security vestibule.
- Site: old baseball diamond, attached to the existing elementary school
- Groundbreaking: tentatively around June
- Construction: estimated at about two years
- Architect: CMBA will finalize blueprints in the coming months
Groundbreaking is tentatively planned for June
- 1959The current primary school is built.
- Nov. 3Voters approve the $38 million bond measure.
- JuneGroundbreaking is tentatively planned, with construction estimated at about two years.
Sources: KTIV, Sioux City Journal
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