$12 Million In Renovation To Buildings
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Jersey Schools Start School Year With Makeover
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 13:27
Jersey Community Middle School, Jerseyville West Elementary and Jerseyville East Elementary have significant amounts of construction work done. A total of $8 million was spent on Jerseyville West renovations and $4 million on Jersey Community Middle School. The funds used were not taken from the education funding, but from health and safety and sales tax bond funds, Jersey Community Unit School District 100 Superintendent Brad Tuttle said.
“The sales tax bond will take about 10 years of sales tax money to pay,” Tuttle said. “The biggest projects were at Jersey Middle and Jerseyville West Elementary. We have some grants helping with some of the projects at the middle school. We received a really low interest rate for the bonds between 2 and 3 percent.”
Jersey Middle School and Jerseyville West both received new roofs. Security has been something Superintendent Tuttle had wanted to improve and the entrances of the different schools now have a new entrance method. People visiting schools now must stop and ring a button for entry into the schools.
Heating and cooling changes will make a big change in Jerseyville West.
Some offices at Jersey High School were also relocated.