NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
PRETTY PRAIRIE, Kan. — The Pretty Prairie USD 311 School Board is looking to work up another bond issue for the district, but they are seeking some help.
"The Board unanimously agrees we've got to do something with a bond issue," Superintendent Ashley Anderson said. "We've got to generate money quickly to pay for some of these projects. We can then strategically use capital outlay money to our yearly projects and get some things going that way."
Each board member brought their thoughts on what bond priorities should be to the board meeting that took place Monday night.
"Each of our board members came with a presentation prepared, kind of outlined a few questions," Anderson said. "I think that it was important that the public hear, you know, like a timeline, when do they want to have the next election? What's their project list? The gym is a big issue, so how did they feel on that? How do they feel about our communication last time? Could it be better? What were their ideas? Each of them came prepared and gave a little one to three minute speech on their answers to each of those questions. It was really good for us just to hear from each member, knowing where each person stood and we kind of walked away from it. We didn't do any further discussion. We just kind of heard everybody and were kind of walking away to process."
The next board meeting will be a night where not only USD 311 members can weigh in.
"We actually have a joint meeting on the 24th with the City Council," Anderson said. "It's kind of taking this approach of, here's our needs and then here's our wants and seeing if any of those align with things that the city wants to do, as well. Maybe we can come up with a community center idea versus just a gymnasium for the school."
Though it obviously won't be on an equal scale, the high school and community college in Colby play their games at the Colby Event Center, which is owned by the city.