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The Bond Issue
The Lowndes County School District
$44,000,000
LCSD Board of Trustees
Let’s Take a Closer Look
Around LCSD
Campus and School Perspective
• Ages of our buildings
• Campus and School student populations
• Student Transportation
• Recent renovations and building projects currently underway
• Bond Specifics
• Fee In Lieu
Career Technical Center
NHM 1955ALT.1957NHE 4-5 1958CES 1959CMS1965CHS1980WLE1987NHE K-3 1987NHH1992WLHS2000
Age of LCSDBuildings
2015
CAL. 2,112 NH 2,531 WL 539
Cost per Student
WLE 315 $8,261.45
WLH 224 $14,636.14
NHE 1162 $5,953.02
NHM 576 $6,407.66
NHH 793 $6,969.35
CES 1041 $5,833.75
CMS 490 $6,031.88
CHS 581 $7,507.52
How will it be invested?
Career Tech Center $11,000,000
New Hope High School $26,000,000
West Lowndes Schools $2,100,000
Caledonia $4,900,000All costs include surveys, soil testing, and other soft costs preliminary to actual building.
Caledonia Campus$4,900,000
Campus Master Plan
Expand Middle School into K-1 building
Renovate portions of the Middle School
Move 9th grade to upper elementary for a 9th Grade Academy
Demolition of remaining buildings
Additional parking
Bus loop extension
2 Biology Science Classrooms
Field House
What’s been done
already?A new CES is currently being built with district funds, note proceeds and lease purchase.The location eases traffic congestion on the campus.
$23,000,000
CES has 390 actual cars intheir car line every morning and afternoon. That’s 1/3 of their students. (1041)
CMS has 179 morning car riders and 132 afternooncar riders. (490)
CHS has 52 students that donot ride the bus. (581)
New Hope High School built across the street from the present high school this would remove the high school drivers from the main campus
Will allow for rest of Master Plan to occur
Moving NHM to current high school
Demolish NHE 4-5 Building and some of the current NHM
Re-routing traffic
MEMA/FEMA 75-25 Grant for Gymnasium/Storm Shelter
New Hope Campus$26,000,000
What’s been done already?
Field House
$2,000,000
New Hope Elementary has 530 Car riders every day. That is nearly 50% of their student population. (1162)
New Hope Middle has about 130 students that do not ride the bus. (576)
New Hope High has 400 who do not ride a bus. This is also about 50% of their studentpopulation. (793)
West Lowndes Campuses$2,100,000
Elementary School Renovations
Parking Lot resurfacing with spaces added
Electrically operated bleachers in P.E. Gym
Additional air conditioning in P.E. Gym
Additional Playground equipment
Middle/High School Renovations
Team Room for athletics
Resurface parking lot
2 additional ticket booths
Extend canopy for entrance
What’s been done already?
Elementary4 classroomsOfficeSet of bathrooms
High SchoolRemodeling of the west half of the school (1972) New office suite including a new entranceRepair restrooms New Maintenance building
$2,000,000
300 of WLE’s 315 students are bus riders each day.
WLH has about 50 students who do not ride a bus to school. (224)
$11,000,000
Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses help students develop marketable job skills and earn national industry certifications needed to achieve their occupational goals.
LCSD Students at EMCC School Semester Students Remedial Degree
CHS 2013 Fall 171 36 532014 Spr. 148 25 452014 Fall 171 37 23
NHHS 2013 Fall 262 56 672014 Spr. 233 22 702014 Fall 245 46 35
WLHS 2013 Fall 93 30 192014 Spr. 68 16 192014 Fall 70 19 10
What CTE courses are currently offered at each campus?
WLHSBusinessMasonry
NHHSAuto MechanicsEngineering/RoboticsCo-Op
CHSAllied HealthCarpentry
Did you know that LCSD is
part of an elite group in
Mississippi? That’s right! We are 1 of 3 district’s
in the state whose students don't have
access to a career tech center.
CTE students can earn graduate honors as a Mississippi Scholars Tech Master.
CTE students can work toward earning National Certifications in 6 different areas including MS Construction Education Foundation.
Mississippi Projected Job Openings by Occupation and Education Level until 2020
1. Less than high school - 57,0002.Between high school
diploma and Associates Degree - 308,000
3. Bachelor’s Degree - 73,0004. Master’s Degree or Better -
34,000
A few words about taxes…
Fee In Lieu Tax
Just what is that anyway?
“My taxes won’t go up and Fee In Lieu?”
ad valorem means “based on value or worth”It is a property tax based on a percentage of the county’s assessment of the property’s value.
It is actually a fee in lieu of ad valorem taxes in the amount of 1/3 of the value of the ad valorem tax. Fee in Lieu was charged in effort to attract industry to the Golden Triangle area. The fee in lieu is paid for 10 years and then it rolls off as the industry begins to pay its’ ad valorem tax. We currently receive over $6,000,000 in fee in lieu. This will continue to roll off and become $18,000,000 in ad valorem dollars. This will be a net increase of $12,000,000 in ad valorem tax over the next 6 years.
Fee In Lieu
This presentation was created with my MAC using Keynotes
May 12, 2015
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