Elementary teachers support bond

Jim Cornelius | Last updated Mar 12, 1996 12:0pm0

Sisters Elementary School teachers lent their support to the school district's proposed bond issue at the March 11 school board meeting.

Carol Boudreau read a letter signed by 42 elementary school staff members urging the board to pursue the full $5.5 million bond and pledging support.

The school board approved the ballot title for the bond, which will go before Sisters voters in May. The bond issue would provide $3 million to construct eight new classrooms at the elementary school and proposes an additional $2 million for maintenance projects.

"We just want you to know that we support it and we want you to go full steam ahead on it," Boudreau told the board.

Earl Armbruster, Business Manager for the district, told the board that an advocacy group has formed in the community to drum up community support for the bond.

"They hope to mount an aggressive campaign to get the bond passed," Armbruster said.

Boudreau told The Nugget that teachers -just didn't realize that the support wasn't there in the communityî when the same bond failed last November.

She said that she personally was surprised by the previous bond's defeat.

"I feel now we need to be a little more proactive," she said.

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