EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth of a four-part series detailing the over $90 million bond proposal to improve facilities, technology, transportation, and safety and security in Enid Public Schools campuses. Enid Public Schools plans to invest more than $23 million in athletics and fine arts facilities for students across the district. Enid residents will vote on a more than $90 million bond in February to improve facilities, transportation, technology and safety and security on campuses across the EPS district, including a competition gym and fine arts facility at Enid High School. The district has projected benefits to EPS would total $55.8 million, but adding fees and interest brings the price tag to $92,795,000. Legally, bond money cannot go toward teacher salaries or administrative fees. If passed, $23.5 million will go toward a fine arts facility at EHS, which includes rooms for band, choral, orchestra, dance and music technology, a black box theatre, a video and sports broadcasting studio, and 15 new classrooms; a competition gym with locker rooms, a wrestling room, and seating for 2,500; and renovations to the Margaret Buvinger Music Building to create eight additional classrooms. The $99 million bond in 2010 was phase one of district improvement, including the construction of Garfield and Prairie View elementary schools, and this bond is phase two, EPS Superintendent Darrell Floyd said. “If you take the 2010 bond package and overlay it with this bond proposal and add them together, 37 percent went to new schools or will go to new classrooms, 37 percent to safety and security, 11 percent to athletics, 7 percent to fine arts, five percent to technology and 3 percent to transportation,” he said. The athletic portion of the bond proposal was originally more extensive, including an indoor training facility, but the community called for more money to go toward academic facilities, EPS Communications Director Amber Graham Fitzgerald said. “The community expressed a strong interest in reducing the size of the athletic projects in the overall school bond package,” she said.Read more on NewsOK.com
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