Miami Voters To Decide $3.6-Million School Bond Issue In April

The Miami School Board has gone back to the drawing board, dramatically reducing a bond proposal after a nearly $23 million bond proposal was rejected in 2015. 

"The last issue again was a strong aggressive, one. But for these more modest requests this community has a strong history in supporting bond issues, this community values its schools," Interim Superintendent Terry James told KOAM, the CBS affiliate in Joplin.

In April, voters will consider a new plan which officials say will cost $3.6 million, to be paid over six years. 

"This would just be a basic nuts and bolts conversation with the community," said Terry James.

The money would pay for fixes to the high school's leaky roof and parking lot, extra classroom space at the new consolidated Fourth and Fifth Grade Center at Nichols Elementary and more secure entrances that open up to administrative offices at most schools.