From the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette:
When residents in the East Allen County Schools district head to the polls May 8, they’ll be asked whether they want to pay for an $88 million building project affecting New Haven schools and the former Paul Harding High School.
The project – the third and final phase of the district’s redesign plan – would turn New Haven High School into a seventh-through-12th-grade building and renovate the former Paul Harding High School, which will be opening this fall as East Allen University.
It would also create a third-through-sixth-grade “intermediate” school using part of Park Hill Learning Center and relocate the East Allen Schools administration building to New Haven Elementary.
If approved, much of the cost of the project would go toward electrical and mechanical upgrades, including updating heating and air conditioning units at two of the high school buildings, East Allen Business Manager Kirby Stahly said.
New Haven High School is 35 years old, and the Harding building is 39 years old.
The $88 million project is the final stage of a three-stage $111 million district redesign plan to close several schools and renovate others. The first phase expands Woodlan Junior-Senior High School into a kindergarten-through-12th-grade campus, and the second phase does the same at Heritage Junior-Senior High School.
Both the Woodlan and Heritage projects were approved through a dueling petition process – not a referendum at the voting booth.
For the owner of a $100,000 home, the three projects are expected to cost $85 a year in property taxes. For an 80-acre farm with an assessed value of $130,000, taxes would increase by about $339 a year.
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