NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
PRETTY PRAIRIE, Kan. —With the failure of the Pretty Prairie $10.4 million bond issue Tuesday, it's time for some choices for the Pretty Prairie school board when they meet next week.
"We will just go back to the drawing board," said USD 311 Superintendent Ashley Anderson. "We've got all of our notes and original plans and feedback from community meetings and so we're just going to regroup and figure out our next step, which will be prioritizing projects that were part of the bond."
Anderson sees some of the maintenance that has been deferred as things that need to come first out of what was rejected.
"Our windows are really, in my mind, our number one thing, followed closely by our roofs on all the buildings," Anderson said. "We've got some leaking ceilings, which are a direct result of our roofs."
She said the district just can't do everything it needs to with what it can raise from capital outlay.
"It would be a range of $260,000 to $300,000 a year that we could generate," Anderson said.
That would mean that with no price increases or any other needs, it would take around 30 years for capital outlay to raise the amount of money that was rejected by voters Tuesday, so bringing a smaller bond would appear to be something that has to be done regardless.