After reviewing the building section of the school bond web site, please let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.
If you’d like to discuss the value of making this bond happen in general terms, or discuss any other aspect of the bond aside form the facilities, please make your comments in the General School Bond Comment area. The reason we have two comment streams is simply that many proponents of passing the bond have valuable and more practical input about the facilities.
If you wish to write more than 250 words on any subject, let us know, we’ll be happy to post a separate, unedited, article for you —of any length. Just shoot us your article, edited please, to salidacitizen@gmail.com.
Comments below are facilities specific. If you’d like to talk to the Superintendent, Darryl Webb, feel free to call him at 719-530-5252. He’s an easy guy to talk to.
Have reviwed the School Bond site and it has good basic information.
Some questions to the School Board remain and will be mailed to them in hard copy (per ill-advised, new communications policy):
1. What is the annual budget for maintenance costs, debt service, payroll and other operating costs for years 1-10 of the new high school? How will these costs be funded? This information needs to be posted on the School Bond site to substantiate the proposition that “annual MAINTENANCE costs will INITIALLY (web site wording) be lower” than keeping the old school running.
2. What are the policies and firm plans that ensure that the new school will be available to the community for meeting space and recreation and on what terms? How will this be coordinated with those facilities (SteamPlant, Hot Springs Pool, Boy Scout Hut, Touber Building, Salida CommunityCenter, etc,.) already competing to fill their spaces?
This commercial (plus residential) property owner is poised to invest $30,000 ($1,500 per year for 20 years of the bonds) for the good of the community, IF these common sense questions can be answered.