July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Board slows down school project (12/9/04)
No vote will be take at Dec. 20 meeting
Jay County residents will have more time to be heard.
Jay School Board members will not vote Monday to move forward with the estimated $26.6 million in improvement projects at Jay County High School.
The postponed vote has been tentatively reset for a public hearing in February to allow time for Jay County residents to tour the high school in January.
A revised legal notice from board members appeared in The Commercial Review Wednesday stating the board will not consider adopting the preliminary determination resolution at the 1028 hearing set for 6 p.m. Monday in the commons at JCHS.
If approved, the resolution would have set the maximum amount that can be spent on the proposed projects and determined if the corporation would issue bonds to finance the projects.
“Our thought process was that people have not toured the school in a long time. By separating the public hearings, we will hold school building tours to show them the pool, the gym, the gym schedule, the boiler and the vocational areas,” Jay Schools superintendent Barbara Downing said Wednesday afternoon about the board’s decision.
Downing said she plans to develop a complete tour schedule over the weekend. The tours are tentatively set for mostly evenings during the first two to three weeks of January.
She added the board will likely hold a special meeting in January to only discuss the planned improvement projects and talk about the scope and the amounts of bonds needed for the projects. Downing anticipates this meeting will be held on Monday, Jan. 17, a week before the board’s regular meeting on Monday, Jan. 24.
The second public hearing, where the board will vote on the preliminary determination resolution, will tentatively be held in February, Downing added Wednesday.
If the resolution is approved, the taxpayers of the school district can file a remonstrance by acquiring 100 signatures on a petition in opposition of the project, Downing said. She added this slows the process down. This remonstrance also implies that the opposition is willing to participate in a petition drive, she said.
After a remonstrance is filed, the board can choose to start a petition drive, where parties on both sides of the issue collect signatures from Jay County taxpayers in favor of their position.
At the end of the drive, the winner is decided by which party has the most signatures on their petition.
If the board wins, it can go ahead with the improvement project. If the opposition succeeds, the project is stopped, but the board can recreate a similar project and restart the approval process beginning with a 1028 hearing.
The improvement projects discussed at the board’s Nov. 22 meeting include a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, an addition which includes a new swimming pool, auxiliary gym and locker rooms and remodeling projects to the school’s vocational area, existing pool area and parking lot.
As a result of these projects, there is also talk of moving the school corporation central office into the high school from its current East Arch Street location.[[In-content Ad]]
Jay School Board members will not vote Monday to move forward with the estimated $26.6 million in improvement projects at Jay County High School.
The postponed vote has been tentatively reset for a public hearing in February to allow time for Jay County residents to tour the high school in January.
A revised legal notice from board members appeared in The Commercial Review Wednesday stating the board will not consider adopting the preliminary determination resolution at the 1028 hearing set for 6 p.m. Monday in the commons at JCHS.
If approved, the resolution would have set the maximum amount that can be spent on the proposed projects and determined if the corporation would issue bonds to finance the projects.
“Our thought process was that people have not toured the school in a long time. By separating the public hearings, we will hold school building tours to show them the pool, the gym, the gym schedule, the boiler and the vocational areas,” Jay Schools superintendent Barbara Downing said Wednesday afternoon about the board’s decision.
Downing said she plans to develop a complete tour schedule over the weekend. The tours are tentatively set for mostly evenings during the first two to three weeks of January.
She added the board will likely hold a special meeting in January to only discuss the planned improvement projects and talk about the scope and the amounts of bonds needed for the projects. Downing anticipates this meeting will be held on Monday, Jan. 17, a week before the board’s regular meeting on Monday, Jan. 24.
The second public hearing, where the board will vote on the preliminary determination resolution, will tentatively be held in February, Downing added Wednesday.
If the resolution is approved, the taxpayers of the school district can file a remonstrance by acquiring 100 signatures on a petition in opposition of the project, Downing said. She added this slows the process down. This remonstrance also implies that the opposition is willing to participate in a petition drive, she said.
After a remonstrance is filed, the board can choose to start a petition drive, where parties on both sides of the issue collect signatures from Jay County taxpayers in favor of their position.
At the end of the drive, the winner is decided by which party has the most signatures on their petition.
If the board wins, it can go ahead with the improvement project. If the opposition succeeds, the project is stopped, but the board can recreate a similar project and restart the approval process beginning with a 1028 hearing.
The improvement projects discussed at the board’s Nov. 22 meeting include a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, an addition which includes a new swimming pool, auxiliary gym and locker rooms and remodeling projects to the school’s vocational area, existing pool area and parking lot.
As a result of these projects, there is also talk of moving the school corporation central office into the high school from its current East Arch Street location.[[In-content Ad]]
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