CLICK TO HEAR JACK HALL’S INTERVIEW WITH DETOUR SUPT. BOB VAUGHT
The DeTour School District in the eastern Upper Peninsula can move forward on needed building repairs now that voters have approved a bond request.
The vote in Tuesday’s election was 278 yes to 175 no, or 61 percent to 39 percent. The vote allows the district can resale bonds of up to $3 million, attaching to the last bond proposal in 2020. The move does not increase taxes on district residents.
“Very happy, and very excited for our students and staff,” DeTour School Superintendent Bob Vaught told RRN News Tuesday night. “Running an August election can be risky because of voter apathy. We feel quite fortunate that this was able to pass. It’s a very confusing language in these bond issues, but I think we did a good job of putting out information and letting people the reason for it. Everyone knows the price of everything has increased after COVID-19.”
Vaught says needed projects had to be put on hold because of soaring prices, but now, they will have the resources to do some of them.
“We’ve got to finish up on Drummond Island (School),” Vaught said. “We need to do some things at that school because it’s been a while since we’ve done any repairs over there. We’ll finish that school up first. Then in Detour, we have four items: our restrooms, our roof, air handlers in the gymnasium, and our boilers. Those are the hot items at the mainland school.”
He says they’ll also work on the parking lots, and install energey-effiency lights and windows.
Below is a “thank you letter” from the schools to the DeTour community.
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