Thu, Nov 26 2009
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Seneca’s $10 million bond issue draws fire from Loma Linda trustees Cook said a new high school, while desirable, is not feasible at this time.
“There isn’t one person who did not want (a new high school), but you have got to operate within your means,” he said. He said a new high school would cost about $15 million, while the district’s borrowing capacity is about $11 million. Provisions in the current proposal, meanwhile, address some of the high school’s most glaring needs with its cafeteria, library and gym. In November 2006 and again in April 2007, school officials sought voter approval of a plan for construction of a new high school at Route U and Bethel Road. Both measures failed, and reviews showed that the proposed site of the new high school — specifically its location on the fringes of Seneca — was a critical issue, Cook said. As for an elementary school on Highway 43, Cook said the building committee found that location would mean costly secondary bus routes. Surveys also showed support for keeping the new school closer in town. Under the plan that will come before voters in November, the new elementary school building could accommodate 360 students and house grades four, five and six if voters approve the plan. The sixth grade would be moved from the middle school to the new building. Cook said the district’s most acute overcrowding problem is in the elementary school. Currently, the district has one elementary building with an enrollment of 689 students running from kindergarten through fifth grade, according to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The district has had to use trailers at both the elementary and middle schools and for its Early Childhood Program. The measure requires a four-sevenths majority to pass in November. By the numbers The November bond proposal carries an 85-cent levy hike that would mean an annual tax increase of more than $129 for an $80,000 house in Seneca. The district’s current levy stands at $2.75 per $100 of assessed valuation. The owner of an $80,000 house pays $418 a year in taxes at that rate. The district has no debt-service levy. 
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