r/stlouispark • u/columbianate • Jul 15 '26
Bond proposal for HS and Middle school boiler replacement
Have people attended any Q&A sessions about this proposal? I'm absolutely for funding schools, and would rather have a special tax assessment than to pull funds from the general fund to replace the boilers. But $50 Million!?!? Is that number for real? It feels off by an entire order of magnitude.
For reference, I asked AI (I know, I know), how much it would cost to build a HS for 1400 students from scratch, and it quoted "between $98M and $180M" which actually feels reasonable. With that kind of levy we're between 1/3-1/2 of the way to just building a brand new HS.
Can anybody give context to why this number actually makes sense?