One of the emails that I received yesterday included information about the age of Cooper Landing School; I learned that it is 41 years old. The comparatively old age of this school reminds me of our need to regularly perform major maintenance on our buildings. In a perfect world our students would attend school in state of the art, modern, energy efficient buildings. But without someone discovering gold in the Caribou Hills, it is unlikely that we will be able to replace very many of our schools in the near future. It is for this reason that we need to make these periodic upgrades.
Earlier this week the voters of our borough approved a bond to secure funds to do major maintenance on several of our schools. The school district thanks the voters for voting yes on this bond. Without such a passage the borough would be placed in the awkward position of letting its older schools age beyond repair or significantly raising taxes to pay for the needed maintenance. Looking ahead, the borough will need to regularly ask its voters to approve such maintenance bonds. It is always difficult to take on debt, but in the case of maintaining our schools, it is the option that makes sense.
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Maintaining our schools
One of the emails that I received yesterday included information about the age of Cooper Landing School; I learned that it is 41 years old. The comparatively old age of this school reminds me of our need to regularly perform major maintenance on our buildings. In a perfect world our students would attend school in state of the art, modern, energy efficient buildings. But without someone discovering gold in the Caribou Hills, it is unlikely that we will be able to replace very many of our schools in the near future. It is for this reason that we need to make these periodic upgrades.
Earlier this week the voters of our borough approved a bond to secure funds to do major maintenance on several of our schools. The school district thanks the voters for voting yes on this bond. Without such a passage the borough would be placed in the awkward position of letting its older schools age beyond repair or significantly raising taxes to pay for the needed maintenance. Looking ahead, the borough will need to regularly ask its voters to approve such maintenance bonds. It is always difficult to take on debt, but in the case of maintaining our schools, it is the option that makes sense.