{"id":15221,"date":"2023-10-04T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15221"},"modified":"2023-10-01T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T03:58:11","slug":"west-sioux-bond-would-replace-1961-ireton-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/10\/west-sioux-bond-would-replace-1961-ireton-addition\/","title":{"rendered":"West Sioux bond would replace 1961 Ireton addition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s apparently a 1921 school hiding somewhere in Ireton. It&#8217;s not readily visible, but something from that year would get renovations, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/w-sioux.k12.ia.us\/bond23\/home\">West Sioux&#8217;s plans for a bond referendum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial photos show that a building that was there in the 1930s and 1950s isn&#8217;t there now, but there could be a remaining portion.<\/p>\n<p>The 1961 addition, however, wouldn&#8217;t be so lucky. The FAQ says windows in that addition have been boarded up because they are 62 years old and bond referendums to replace them have failed twice.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/w-sioux.k12.ia.us\/bond23\/home\">Renderings on the West Sioux website<\/a> show an addition that is thematically architecturally similar, but attached north of the gymnasium instead.<\/p>\n<p>This bond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwestiowa.com\/news\/south-obrien-doon-bonds-pass-ws-no\/article_5ade26ca-bde2-11ed-8927-b3759547f290.html\">missed a supermajority by 10 votes in March<\/a>, and the cost has increased from $15 million to $15.5 million. A different bond vote, which would have put all students in fifth grade and lower in a new building in Ireton, also narrowly failed to reach a supermajority in March 2022. Very notably, the FAQ says inflation has outpaced the district&#8217;s bonding capacity, which means replacement of the Ireton building is out of reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s apparently a 1921 school hiding somewhere in Ireton. It&#8217;s not readily visible, but something from that year would get renovations, according to West Sioux&#8217;s plans for a bond referendum. Aerial photos show that a building that was there in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/10\/west-sioux-bond-would-replace-1961-ireton-addition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-15221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221","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=15221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15224,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221\/revisions\/15224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}