Articles About facilities levy

• School board to hire Ruetschle Architects facilities improvement design

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 8, 2024

  

  The school district’s facilities improvement project — particularly its timeline for both design and construction — was the topic of focus at a special meeting of the school board Wednesday, Jan. 24.

• Architect firm chosen for school facilities project

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 26, 2024

  

  Ruetschle Architects, and in particular firm Vice President Mike Ruetschle, worked with the district in 2022 and 2023 as a consultant to create a master facilities plan to put before voters.

• School board resumes facilities, levy talks

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 26, 2023

  

  As the Nov. 7 election day approaches, the Board of Education last week resumed discussing an upcoming levy to address district school facilities.

• Yellow Springs Board of Education to adopt ‘C7’ plan

  By Lauren ShowsJune 1, 2023

  

  The regular meeting of the Board of Education on Monday, May 22, ended in applause from community members who were present: After more than a year of work and discussion, the board voted unanimously to select a plan for facilities upgrades to place on the ballot this fall.

• Board of Education weighs levy options

  By Lauren ShowsMay 11, 2022

  

  A permanent improvement levy passed in 2018 is set to expire in 2023. Two emergency levies of $1,060,391 and $917,417 will expire in 2025, and a $4.5 million bond issue passed in 2000 to pay for renovations and additions at both campuses will be paid down at the end of 2026.

• YS Schools Facilities Committee begins

  By Lauren ShowsMay 4, 2022

  

  At its first meeting on Thursday, April 7, the YS Schools Facilities Committee, recently formed by the school board, focused on clarifying its purpose and dividing tasks between its members to work toward that purpose.

• YS school board — Facilities levy set for ballot

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 23, 2021

  

  After months of incremental steps leading toward the goal of putting a nearly $35.6 million facilities levy on the November ballot, the Yellow Springs school board has taken the final move necessary to place the measure before district voters this fall.

• YS school board— Facilities levy moves forward

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 13, 2021

  

  As anticipated, the Yellow Springs school board on Friday morning, June 25, took the first step in putting a levy measure on the November ballot to pay for the proposed construction of a K–12 school, projected to cost nearly $35.6 million, at the current site of the middle/high school campus on East Enon Road.

• YS school facilities— BOE weighs levy ask

  By Carol SimmonsJune 27, 2021

  

  Having last month approved a $35.5 million master plan to construct a K–12 school at the middle/high school campus on East Enon Road, the Yellow Springs school board is nearing a decision about a levy measure to support the project.

• School board OK’s new K–12 plan

  By Carol SimmonsMay 30, 2021

  

  The projected cost is about $35.5 million, though the district expects an eventual state reimbursement of 26%, more than $9.2 million.