York, Mine -voters will be asked to approve the upgrade of Million 3.5 million Of York High School The science rooms that the organizers say are important to learning.
School officials say that seven high school science rooms lack proper access to the use of space, tools and water and propane that is essential for classwork and labs. Students using rooms for science classes agree that it is difficult to work there.
The proposal will cost a total of $ 3,486,250 and will appear as Article 64 on the May 17 referendum belt, which provides funds through bonds. When students are performing well in state diagnostic science, old classrooms are surpassing them, said Superintendent Tim Duke and Principal Amanda Soti.
“Once they leave high school, they are not preparing our high school students for college -level science,” Soti said.
York High School Science room is lacking old, facilitating
According to Soti, science rooms were built in 2000. The school itself was built in 1976. Duke has said that due to the recent investment in the latest school auditorium in the future, it is unlikely that a new school will be built. Therefore, York will continue to rely on the rooms of current science.
Soti said the protection of the rooms is the biggest concern. He said the building codes have changed in 25 years after the room was constructed. He also said that some places of the lab are not flames.
Duke and Sutti said that rooms have features of fixed tables that cannot move, making it difficult for classes to be flexible in organizing students for science activities. He said that some important facilities are missing from the rooms, and all are old plumbing and HVAC.
“They all need some kind of propane,” Soti said.
Science rooms are aimed at different use to allow studies that are from biology to physics.
Jack Goldberg, who graduated from York High School last year, remembered to take numerous classes of science and find it difficult to work and clean his area properly. He said he used goods that were decades old and used drowns that lacked proper water pressure and depth.
Science rooms weighing $ 3.5 million
The project will be financed through a 20 -year bond, which will be first paid in the financial year 2029. According to the ballot question, the first payment will be 325.556. With the approval of the project, the city’s debt will be $ 41,495,350.
Both the budget committee and the silic board unanimously supported the project. When voters go to the elections in May, their 7-0 and 5-0 votes will appear on the ballot.
The proposal came in a year when school officials also proposed an increase of 11.84 percent of the budget, which was eventually cut by 8.6 percent after the reaction from the residents. It is important for the school district to approve the project, Duk said. He said the school department would be forced to work only by delaying the project.
“If you do not invest in them, schools are not different from anyone’s personal home,” said Duke. “It will cost it in a long time.”
