Financial responsibility isn’t just about the price tag.
We’ve heard the argument that this bond isn’t financially responsible. But when we talk about the cost, we also have to look at what our other option costs us.
Our current high school opened in 1957. The estimated cost to remodel the existing high school is more than $20 million. The proposed new educational building is $25.95 million.
That means the conversation isn’t simply “$25.95 million for a new school.”
It’s “Do we invest more than $20 million into a 69-year-old building, or do we invest about $5 million more in a new facility built to serve our students and community for decades?”
A remodel would still leave us with an aging building. A new facility gives us the opportunity to build around the needs of our students today and into the future.
Financial responsibility means asking not just, “What will this cost us?” but also, “What are we getting for that investment?”
The question isn’t whether we spend money. It’s how we choose to invest it.
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