COLUMBIA, MO. -- Columbia Public School Superintendent Chris Belcher plans to personally push a $120 million bond issue on the April 6 ballot.
Belchers said he will make more than 100 presentations to schools, businesses and community organizations between now and Election Day.
Most of the money would pay for a new high school and elementary school.
Columbia voters approved the first of three scheduled $60 million bond issues in 2007.
District officials combined the remaining two $60 million proposals into a $120 million bond issue on the upcoming April ballot.
The bond issues do not raise taxes.
“This simply extends the amount of time that we pay off bonds," Belcher said. "We are still way under the capacity of which we could sell bonds. We think it’s the right thing to do because when you have 164 trailers in a public school district, you know that we are way over capacity on the number of students we have in our schools.”
If the bond issue fails, Belcher said his district will have to make some major adjustments to deal with a growing student population and the high cost of building maintenance.
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