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Avon Local School District
A majority affirmative vote is necessary for passage
Shall bonds be issued by the Avon Local School District for the purpose of constructing, renovating, remodeling, furnishing, equipping and otherwise improving school district buildings and facilities and clearing, improving and equipping their sites in the principal amount of $90,000,000, to be repaid annually over a maximum period of 37 years, and an annual levy of property taxes be made outside of the ten-mill limitation, estimated by the county auditor to average over the repayment period of the bond issue 3.98 mills for each $1 of taxable value, which amounts to $139 for each $100,000 of the county auditor’s appraised value, commencing in 2024, first due in calendar year 2025, to pay the annual debt charges on the bonds, and to pay debt charges on any notes issued in anticipation of those bonds?
Summary:
- $50.5 million elementary school for grades 3-5
- $29.5 million new athletic complex.
- Indoor facility with a synthetic turf field, basketball courts and a baseball field, $5.3 million for locker and weight rooms at the high school
- $3 million for a bus garage
- $1.7 million for renovations at Heritage.
- The Board of Education will vacate its existing offices in the former Village school and move into the Heritage campus. the old offices and the East campus will be sold.
- Avon Early Learning Center will be demolished when the new elementary school is completed.
ALSD will reduce six properties to four, which will reduce utility bills that cost more in older buildings.
Schools will be safer, with one controlled entry to increase security.
Current buildings are 60-70 years old, passage will obviate annoying maintenance issues.
