55.45 Howe Enterprise March 26, 2018

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The location of the new Howe ISD primary/elementary school. finalized until closing. Now that the property has been identified, the school can begin the final stages of site-plan development.

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quickly in the direction of a primary facility that would house four grade levels of prekindergarten, kindergarten, first grade and second grade on a new Howe ISD's $17 million bond campus. The committee's election passed with 434 votes for suggestion would free existing to 171 votes against back in space at the current elementary and November of 2017. The 605 ballots middle school campuses with the cast was a very high vote count for removal of the four grade levels. It Howe for a non-presidential would also remove traffic election. With 3,220 registered congestion on the block located voters in Howe, the count equals a between the streets of Roberts, voting turnout of 18.78 percent. Beatrice, Collins Freeway and Aubrey Street. The district has a bond capacity of $20 million, but decided not to max The committee looked at numerous out the limit and officially initiated options for a new campus including the $17 million amount by a board the refurbishing of the 1938 WPA motion that called for an election former school building on back in July. Highway 5. However, the cost of renovating the old structure and As the Summit Hill development bringing it up to modern standard was nearing completion in early codes came to the tune of $17 January of 2017, the district hired million which was the same as Tempeleton Demographics to removing the structure and project the city population and building a new facility in its place. school enrollment going forward to determine growth rate as it applies With the four-acre site in town to the facilities of the present being very small for such a campuses. After receiving the campus, the board began to search information that the elementary for other options for the destination campus was projected to be over for the new school. Early on capacity in the 2018-19 school discussions were held about the year, the ISD formed a Community property between Summit Hill and Facility Committee made up of freeway. But finalizing a property parents, teachers, and members of with land developers became a the business community in order to jump back and forth between study the impact of the growth to options. Some options brought the community and its impact on forth more questions than answers the school district. regarding infrastructure for sewer and water lines. The findings of the committee were that the district needed to move page 3

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