FORKS — The Quillayute Valley School Board voted unanimously to put two bond issues before voters on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
“I really feel strongly that we have the support of the board 100 percent on this,” Superintendent Diana Reaume said.
One proposition would be for the replacement of parts of the Forks High School.
The other would pay for rebuilding the sports stadium and adding improvements to it.
But the stadium bond can’t pass without voter approval of the high school bond.
A bond measure requires a 60 percent supermajority to pass.
The language for the measures has not been written yet, but it will require that, while voters must consider each separately, the sports stadium bond cannot be approved without concurrent approval of the high school bond.
If the sports stadium passes, but the high school replacement does not, then neither project will go forward.
If the high school replacement passes, but the stadium bond does not, then the high school project will be done.
The high school project will replace areas that must be vacated because they don’t come up to building code requirements, Reaume said.
The administrative offices, nurses offices and others in the highs school, which was built in 1925, must be vacated this year.
Those offices will be relocated temporarily into a building now reserved for the Insight School of Washington virtual high school.
The bond for the high school would total about $11 million, matched by about $7 million in state grants from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Rebuilding the stadium would add an additional $4 million bond.
The high school bond would fund completion of phase two of replacing the aging high school, Reaume said.
