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Published August 23, 2008 05:05 pm - SENECA, Mo. — Seneca school officials are defending a nearly $10 million bond issue that will come before voters in November following concerns raised by Loma Linda officials.
Seneca’s $10 million bond issue draws fire from Loma Linda trustees
By Derek Spellman
dspellman@joplinglobe.com
SENECA, Mo. — Seneca school officials are defending a nearly $10 million bond issue that will come before voters in November following concerns raised by Loma Linda officials.
The district’s plan calls for construction of a new elementary school near the existing elementary building at 1815 Saint Eugene St., and for additions to the existing high school that will house a new library and media center, a new cafeteria/commons area and a new gymnasium/auditorium.
But last month, the board of trustees for Loma Linda, which is in the Seneca School District, unanimously passed a resolution opposing the proposal for fear that it did not address “the long-term needs of the Seneca school system and its students,” according to the resolution. That resolution was discussed by the Seneca School Board on Aug. 19.
Loma Linda trustees contend a better option would be either to build a new high school on land the district already owns on the north edge of Seneca or to build a new elementary school farther north in the district, although not necessarily in the Loma Linda area, said Bruce Anderson, chairman of Loma Linda’s board of trustees.
Anderson said Loma Linda has supported all of the school’s past bond issues but that the trustees feared the current proposal only provided a “Band-Aid” for deeper overcrowding and traffic problems confronting the district.
“It’s not like we are anti-education,” he said.
Anderson said a new high school in north Seneca would help ease traffic and parking problems since all three school buildings are so close together.
“We don’t need to build in town; therein lies the problem,” he said.
Anderson acknowledged that the district’s worst overcrowding is at the elementary level, but he said a new high school could still ease that because it would mean the district would have four buildings over which to distribute its student population.
If not a new high school, then a new elementary school farther north would help relieve some traffic problems and overcrowding, Anderson said.
Survey says
Seneca Superintendent Rick Cook said surveys showed the current proposal garnered the most support from taxpayers and teachers, partly because it keeps the new school and additions either on or close to the existing buildings.
Cook said a building committee that advised the school board considered a new high school in north Seneca and a new elementary on north Missouri State Highway 43.
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