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 very 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 lecture 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 can also be within the works, however the timeline is foggy, presumably as a lot as a decade with the present spending. School board members say that the best way to go about getting further funds, with out elevating taxes, could be chopping present packages.
“If you had been to have a look at a super scenario and all people 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 can be pretty substantial, and we might most likely provide you with just a little bit more cash earlier than later. But once more, you realize, there’s give and take with that.”
The Meade County School Board says it should proceed gathering public enter earlier than coming to a last determination.
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