NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
PRETTY PRAIRIE, Kan. — Pretty Prairie USD 311 is working on the specific details for voters on their latest try for a bond issue after one was defeated in September.
"We're coming in right at $7.4 million," said USD 311 Superintendent Ashley Anderson. "It looks like an 18 mill increase. We're going for some maintenance, like roofs and windows on all the buildings. We want to add a breezeway to connect our high school gym with the middle school auditorium/gym. We're going to do a remodel to that middle school gym that could be our new competition center. We want to do some upgrades to our ag shop and to our high school science lab."
The September bond was voted down 277-212, so it's a matter of changing just a few minds.
"We've been working with our construction management company, DCS out of Wichita, they have a marketing team and they work with our financial advisors to get the numbers. We're working with Stifel out of Wichita this time around. They've been hard at work on all of that, working on some promotional materials that we'll get in the hands of our stakeholders here, as soon as possible."
The defeated bond in September was $10.4 million.
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