Bond panel urges spending $3.5B on dozens of CCSD facility projects

The Clark County School District’s enslaved oversight committee is recommending spending astir $3.5 cardinal connected dozens of installation projects implicit the adjacent 14 years.

The committee called for the School Board determination guardant with the projects, including 10 caller simple schools and 5 caller precocious schools, successful a ballot precocious past month.

It’s the 5th revision to the district’s 2015 superior betterment program, which allows the territory to contented bonds to conception caller facilities.

“This is simply a precise ample revision,” Chief of Facilities Jeff Wagner told the committee, besides noting the absorption of the program is shifting from gathering capableness to modernization.

The School Board is expected to see and perchance o.k. the projects sometime successful December.

In effect to assemblage concerns, the committee tabled a determination astir combining Mitchell and King simple schools and Garrett Middle School successful Boulder City into a caller kindergarten done eighth people school.

Dozens of projects approved arsenic portion of the district’s 2015 superior betterment programme already person been completed oregon are underway, including 20 caller schools, 37 schoolroom additions, 18 replacement schools, 5 phased replacement schools and 82 modernization projects.

It was primitively expected to beryllium a 10-year program, but the authorities Legislature authorized extended it this twelvemonth done 2035.

The territory anticipates astir $3.5 cardinal successful enslaved gross volition beryllium disposable for this year’s projects, compared with astir $4.2 cardinal disposable for enslaved revisions 1 done four.

New schoolhouse for sex-trafficking victims

The committee recommended approving a connection to physique and run a schoolhouse astatine St. Jude’s Ranch for Children successful Boulder City.

The project, projected to outgo astir $5 million, would service astir 60 kid victims of enactment trafficking who would unrecorded astatine the ranch.

The schoolhouse would beryllium portion of the Healing Center, a caller offering that volition supply services for enactment trafficking victims astatine St. Jude’s Boulder City property.

“An onsite schoolhouse is simply a truly important portion of this process,” Christina Vela, CEO of the organization, told the Review-Journal.

She said victims shouldn’t instantly spell to accepted nationalist schools for information reasons and due to the fact that galore of them volition beryllium down connected people credits.

The anticipation is to interruption crushed connected the schoolhouse successful mid-January 2022, Vela said, noting she believes it volition beryllium astir a 12-month operation process.

School District Superintendent Jesus Jara told the enslaved oversight committee connected Oct. 28 — conscionable hours earlier the School Board voted 4-3 to terminate his declaration — that the St. Jude’s schoolhouse is simply a “very peculiar project” for him and the community.

It has a debased dollar impact, but volition person a immense interaction successful redeeming lives, helium said, noting Las Vegas is simply a hub for kid enactment trafficking.

Vela said the schoolhouse volition beryllium mostly a precocious school, but could besides see mediate schoolers. She expects the property scope of students would apt beryllium 13 and up.

Other projects

The committee’s different recommended projects see 10 caller simple schools and 5 caller precocious schools.

The precocious schoolhouse projects see 2 “comprehensive” precocious schools — 1 successful the southwest and 1 successful the northwest — and 2 “choice” precocious schools — 1 successful the westbound and 1 successful the southeast.

Also, Robison Middle School successful the cardinal vale would beryllium converted to a “choice” precocious school.

The committee is besides calling for replacing 17 simple schools, including Kelly Elementary School successful Las Vegas’ Historic Westside done a peculiar programme with assemblage partnerships, and 16 mediate schools.

The territory wants to person Laughlin Junior/Senior High School into a kindergarten done 12th people campus. The existing Bennett Elementary School would besides beryllium converted into a kindergarten done 12th people campus.

The territory besides wants cafeteria additions astatine Eldorado, Bonanza and Basic precocious schools.

Additionally, the enslaved oversight committee voted to let the territory flexibility to usage $525 cardinal for exertion and onshore acquisition for installation modernization instead.

Contact Julie Wootton-Greener astatine jgreener@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-387-2921. Follow @julieswootton connected Twitter.