MEADE COUNTY, S.D. — Since 2010, the Meade County population has jumped 17% , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
That progress is being seen in two areas particularly.
“I believe that’s the best progress space at this time limit is down in southern Meade County near the Piedmont, Summerset space,” mentioned Don Kirkegaard, the Superintendent of the Meade County School District.
Administrators say there’s a necessity for extra faculties. The district constructed a new elementary school in Piedmont in 2011. But it’s now looking for an growth, that may add eight school rooms with a price ticket of about $4 million.
“We had 400 some college students. We thought we had been going to have a constructing that might final for a few years to return and it was at capability three years down the street,” Kirkegaard mentioned.
A high school might also be within the works, however the timeline is foggy, probably as a lot as a decade with the present spending. School board members say that the way in which to go about getting additional funds, with out elevating taxes, could be reducing present applications.
“If you had been to have a look at an excellent state of affairs and everyone was pleased with regardless of the board did, we might maximize that mill levy,” mentioned Aaron Odegaard, a Member of the Meade County School Board. “We might in the reduction of on a number of different areas of funding which might be pretty substantial, and we might in all probability provide you with somewhat bit more cash ahead of later. But once more, you already know, there’s give and take with that.”
The Meade County School Board says it would proceed gathering public enter earlier than coming to a ultimate choice.
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