If the $39.5 million bond issue to build a new 7-12 facility fails Aug. 15 in a special bond election, the Humphrey Public School Board of Education and administration have indicated they will not give up. They will have to re-evaluate the scope of the whole project and determine the next course of action.
The bond issue most likely be brought before the public again — likely just 6 months later, the first time it can legally call another bond issue — with almost the exact project, but costs are expected to be higher.
“The school we want to build today could have been built four to five years ago for around $24 million, and we’re at $39.5 million,” Ron Zach, president the school board, said. “If we continue to grow, and we continue to have the needs we have, I believe if we look what happened in the past four years — the prices are only going to go up. I don’t want to close off a street and bring in temporary (modulars) for children to have to learn out of. That’s just a Band-Aid, you still have to do something if we continue to grow.”
