For the third time in four years, the IKM-Manning school district is trying to close the building in Irwin by building an addition in Manning.<\/p>\n
At a meeting in July, the board approved a vote for November, the Carroll Times Herald<\/em> reported<\/a>. An official cost has not been established, the paper said. I couldn’t find a plan for 2023, but the 2020 plan is still online<\/a> at the time this post was written. That flyer showed<\/a> a second gymnasium that could be converted into two courts, a library, locker rooms, science rooms, and many classrooms. (We can tell it’s the 2020 plan because bond votes are no longer allowed in September.)<\/p>\n Earlier this year, district voters approved using state sales tax revenue<\/a>, which is not<\/em> a general obligation bond, for improvements at the school in Manning. Vote totals posted on KCIM’s website<\/a> show that while Carroll County (Manning) voted 19-to-1 in favor, Shelby County (Irwin) and Crawford County (Manilla) were split about 50-50, tilting toward no.\u00a0Weirdly, the Shelby County Auditor’s Office only has vote results<\/a> from 2000 to 2011.<\/p>\n In 2020, the bond referendum had a 55-45 majority<\/a>, but that was not a supermajority. In 2021, the referendum failed by 84 votes. Carroll County again overwhelmingly voted in favor while everywhere else voted nearly 3-to-1 against, according to results posted by KJAN<\/a>. (Note that the URL indicated a successful vote, but a final canvass showed that was not the case.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the third time in four years, the IKM-Manning school district is trying to close the building in Irwin by building an addition in Manning. At a meeting in July, the board approved a vote for November, the Carroll Times … Continue reading
![That flyer showed<\/a> a second gymnasium that could be converted into two courts, a library, locker rooms, science rooms, and many classrooms. (We can tell it’s the 2020 plan because bond votes are no longer allowed in September.)<\/p>\nEarlier this year, district voters approved using state sales tax revenue<\/a>, which is not<\/em> a general obligation bond, for improvements at the school in Manning. Vote totals posted on KCIM’s website<\/a> show that while Carroll County (Manning) voted 19-to-1 in favor, Shelby County (Irwin) and Crawford County (Manilla) were split about 50-50, tilting toward no.\u00a0Weirdly, the Shelby County Auditor’s Office only has vote results<\/a> from 2000 to 2011.<\/p>\nIn 2020, the bond referendum had a 55-45 majority<\/a>, but that was not a supermajority. In 2021, the referendum failed by 84 votes. Carroll County again overwhelmingly voted in favor while everywhere else voted nearly 3-to-1 against, according to results posted by KJAN<\/a>. (Note that the URL indicated a successful vote, but a final canvass showed that was not the case.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the third time in four years, the IKM-Manning school district is trying to close the building in Irwin by building an addition in Manning. At a meeting in July, the board approved a vote for November, the Carroll Times … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15080,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15066\/revisions\/15080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.ikmmfuture.com\/images\/resources\/flyer-back.png\"){kind=link}