New Provo schools?
District is planning a bond election next June
Voters will decide whether to give the district the go-ahead to issue a multimillion-dollar bond — perhaps as much as $30 million. A tax increase — a temporary one, at the least — would cover the cost of repayment.
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The possible financial impact to each household if the public-financing package gains passage remains unknown. No firm decisions have yet been made on the exact amount that voters will be asked to approve, Smith said.
The board also has not decided which construction projects will be done if voters approve the bond issuance and subsequent tax increase.
Next week, district officials will meet with the public at four open houses to discuss boundary-change options.
While the Provo School District is projected to remain at about 13,000 students over the next 10 years, the location of the city's school-age population has shifted markedly due to a residential construction boom west of I-15 that has added thousands of new residents.
At the same time, the number of school-age children in areas of downtown and east Provo has decreased, said Sandy Packard, vice president of the school board.
Overcrowding has resulted because the geographic boundaries that determine which school children attend haven't been changed to correspond with growth.
Some of the options include closing Timpanogos and Grandview elementary schools, building an elementary school in the Lakeview neighborhood, which is in northwest Provo, and a middle school on the west side of Provo, Packard said.
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