With early voting set to start Oct. 17, taxpayers in the Union County Public Schools District will have to decide whether to greenlight a $39 million bond package that school officials say will address some of the district’s aging facilities.
If approved, the bond package would fund nearly $11 million in design and survey work for a new school that would replace Parkwood High School in Monroe. That school was built in the 1960s.
The bond would also fund a $27.5 million renovation project that would convert a high school in Marshville into a middle school. Students from the aging East Union Middle School building would relocate into the Forest Hills High School building. The high school students are already set to move into a new facility, which is projected to open in 2025.
The district has no plans for what it would do with the empty East Union Middle School building, should the bond be approved.
Union County says the bond would increase property taxes by about $8 per $100,000 in property value.
The district’s final community meeting on the proposal is set for Thursday, Oct. 17, at 6 p.m. at East Union Middle School.
