After Four Failures, CV To Once Again Ask For Approval Of Bond

The Central Valley School Board decided Monday night to ask voters to approve a $23 million bond issue in March 1996.

CV’s bond, like four that have failed in recent years, will focus on remodeling Bowdish Junior High and building an elementary school in Liberty Lake.

Bonds have failed, but the Spokane Valley’s population has continued to grow, forcing CV to bus some students from their neighborhoods to other schools that have extra space.

In the district’s bond proposal, the new elementary school planned for Liberty Lake is set at a cost of $9.7 million. The school should accommodate 600 students. If the bond passes, the school should be finished by August 1998, according to the proposal.

The modernization of Bowdish will cost $7.8 million and will include a new 20-year covering on the roof, computer networking and air-conditioning. The remodeling work will take place during two “long summers.”

Although state matching funds might be available for 70 percent of the Bowdish remodel, the money is not guaranteed. The bond proposal therefore envisions full “front funding” of the Bowdish job.

The Bowdish and Liberty Lake projects will eat up $17.5 million of the $23 million. The remaining $5.5 million will be used for improvements such as roofing, doors, lockers, floors, maintenance equipment, roads, utilities, fuel tank modifications, and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

, DataTimes