Why wasn’t a larger gym built with the Middle School or the new Elementary School?
Both of these school building projects were completed using capital outlay funds. Schools are primarily funded by revenue collected through property taxes. The majority of the revenue is used to operate the school and a small portion of the funds raised each year is required to be set aside for bigger or “capital” improvements (building repairs, new computers, buses or new buildings). Since there isn’t an excess of available funds left over from operating the district’s education programs, all available capital outlay funds were used to build the middle and elementary schools. These funds are now committed to paying for the elementary school over the next several years and there aren’t any other sources of revenue for the district to use towards a gymnasium project.
