Poland board to take part in state building program

POLAND — The board of education formally authorized the school district’s participation in a state program that helps districts build new facilities.

All four members of the five-person board who were present at a special meeting today voted to enter the Ohio School Facilities Commission’s Classroom Facilities Assistance Program.

The state will cover 19 percent of the estimated $37.6 million cost to build new K-5th-grade and 6th-8th-grade buildings. The board previously voted to put a 34-year bond issue on the November ballot that would cover the school district’s estimated $30.4 million cost.

Officials, who first began exploring the possibility last year, say the decision is a response to combined factors of a sharp decline in enrollment and infrastructure issues at most of the district’s six school buildings.

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