The Clinton Central School Corporation unanimously passed the 2023 GO Bond Monday night and will be conducting a study of the facilities to prioritize some of the needs they would like to see happen.
“With the increase of our net assessment value within the district, we’ve seen almost a 30 percent increase over two years,” said Clinton Central Superintendent Jeremy Fewell. “That allows us some flexibility to issue this $2.5 million in our GO Bond and be able to take care of some issues that we were not able to take car with this current building project, which would be nice.”
Some of the possible items they would like to care of are:
- MAU’s and RTU’s at CCHS and CCES (10 units total at about 20 years of service.
- Pool Filter Replacement
- Gym 1 Remodel (remove ceiling tiles, new lights, new sound system, paint ceiling/walls, new bleachers, new wall banners).
- New High School Parking in Northwest Grass Area.
- Refinish High School Terrazzo Flooring.
- Asphalt Resurfacing CCSC.
- New Carpet at CCES.
- New Paint at CCES.
- New Black Vinyl Chain Link Fencing at Football/Track.
- ADA Lift Station for CCES Stage.
- Purchase Additional Ground Around the Elementary School for Expansion of Academic Areas.
Fewell added this was a surprise that they were not anticipating.
“It’s a good surprise for us to be able to have to upgrade mechanics and some of the facilities that we have,” said Fewell. “We listed a bunch of stuff and honestly there’s probably five to seven million dollars of maintenance work to do. But, we do what we can with the money we have available. There’s never enough money, but we try to prioritize and plan things out. We make things work for our students and staff.”
Fewell said work on these projects could start around the first of the year.
“Ideally, if we can get some things planned that the current contractors are working on, we’ll save money because they will already be on site,” said Fewell. “We need to decide what needs done first and foremost.”
The Clinton Central Board also unanimously passed the 2024 budget. The budget in 2024 will be $13,088,927 and the adopted tax levy will be $5,617,331.
“We’ll see what DLGF (Department of Local Government Finance) approves for us,” said Fewell. “Our goal is to always keep us tax-neutral. That’s what we did with the referendum, that’s what we did the current building project, and that’s what we’re doing with the current GO Bond. In the last three years, we’ve actually decreased the tax rate. We went from $1.15 to $1.12. Now, we’re at $1.08.”