School District Moves on to Plan B | Video

Evan Kruegel | 12/13/2012

The Public School District One bond referendum has failed, but the district still needs to come up with additional funding for necessary projects. District officials must now move on to plan B, which will include additional requests to state legislators for the funding.

The district needs upwards of $60 million to complete all the projects they need, including construction of a brand new middle school, renovation of an existing elementary school and updates to the current high school.

Superintendent Viola LaFontaine says legislators informed her that more funding would be available for oil and gas impacted schools in the coming year, so the district must now rely on that funding to come through.

"I can go before the Governor and legislators and say, `Here`s what we`ve tried locally, but it`s not enough to meet all our needs, and here`s X amount of dollars more we need.` And then they would hopefully put some money into the projects as well."

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