Money collected through a permanent improvement levy can only be used on construction, and the Career Center wants to proceed with the rest of its master plan to renovate the school.
The Career Center spent $6 million to renovate the school’s cafeteria, construct a new media center and add six classrooms and two science labs. However, the school now says it will need a levy to continue with upgrades that career center Superintendent Margaret Hess said would include expanding the size of existing classrooms, renovating the facility to bring the school up to new building codes and installing energy-saving items, such as day-lighting and improvements to the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system to help them meet the LEED silver environmental rating.
Hess said if a levy is approved, they will have to re-evaluate just how much of those changes they are able to make.
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