Rolla residents will be voting on a bond issue in April after the Board of Education agreed Thursday to place the issue on the ballot.
What form that issue will take still is unknown. There are three options: Either a $.10, or $.05 increase in the debt service, or a no-tax increase bond which will extend the current debt service for 20 years.
In a 6-0 vote, board members voted to proceed with a bond issue after they received a positive report from Ken DeSieghardt of Patron Insight, on the district’s recent resident survey.
“What they liked last year, they liked this year,” DeSieghardt said.
Last fall, Patron Insight did a similar survey for the district, albeit with a much larger scope. After intensive debate, board members decided last school year not to move ahead with a bond issue.
This year, board members were elated by the survey results that showed increased support for a bond issue.
