The Bond Issue

The Lowndes County School District

$44,000,000

LCSD Board of Trustees

Let’s Take a Closer Look

Around LCSD

Campus and School Perspective

• Ages of our buildings

• Campus and School student populations

• Student Transportation

• Recent renovations and building projects currently underway

• Bond Specifics

• Fee In Lieu

Career Technical Center

NHM 1955ALT.1957NHE 4-5 1958CES 1959CMS1965CHS1980WLE1987NHE K-3 1987NHH1992WLHS2000

Age of LCSDBuildings

2015

CAL. 2,112 NH 2,531 WL 539

Cost per Student

WLE 315 $8,261.45

WLH 224 $14,636.14

NHE 1162 $5,953.02

NHM 576 $6,407.66

NHH 793 $6,969.35

CES 1041 $5,833.75

CMS 490 $6,031.88

CHS 581 $7,507.52

How will it be invested?

Career Tech Center $11,000,000

New Hope High School $26,000,000

West Lowndes Schools $2,100,000

Caledonia $4,900,000All costs include surveys, soil testing, and other soft costs preliminary to actual building.

Caledonia Campus$4,900,000

Campus Master Plan

Expand Middle School into K-1 building

Renovate portions of the Middle School

Move 9th grade to upper elementary for a 9th Grade Academy

Demolition of remaining buildings

Additional parking

Bus loop extension

2 Biology Science Classrooms

Field House

What’s been done

already?A new CES is currently being built with district funds, note proceeds and lease purchase.The location eases traffic congestion on the campus.

$23,000,000

CES has 390 actual cars intheir car line every morning and afternoon. That’s 1/3 of their students. (1041)

CMS has 179 morning car riders and 132 afternooncar riders. (490)

CHS has 52 students that donot ride the bus. (581)

New Hope High School built across the street from the present high school this would remove the high school drivers from the main campus

Will allow for rest of Master Plan to occur

Moving NHM to current high school

Demolish NHE 4-5 Building and some of the current NHM

Re-routing traffic

MEMA/FEMA 75-25 Grant for Gymnasium/Storm Shelter

New Hope Campus$26,000,000

What’s been done already?

Field House

$2,000,000

New Hope Elementary has 530 Car riders every day. That is nearly 50% of their student population. (1162)

New Hope Middle has about 130 students that do not ride the bus. (576)

New Hope High has 400 who do not ride a bus. This is also about 50% of their studentpopulation. (793)

West Lowndes Campuses$2,100,000

Elementary School Renovations

Parking Lot resurfacing with spaces added

Electrically operated bleachers in P.E. Gym

Additional air conditioning in P.E. Gym

Additional Playground equipment

Middle/High School Renovations

Team Room for athletics

Resurface parking lot

2 additional ticket booths

Extend canopy for entrance

What’s been done already?

Elementary4 classroomsOfficeSet of bathrooms

High SchoolRemodeling of the west half of the school (1972) New office suite including a new entranceRepair restrooms New Maintenance building

$2,000,000

300 of WLE’s 315 students are bus riders each day.

WLH has about 50 students who do not ride a bus to school. (224)

$11,000,000

Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses help students develop marketable job skills and earn national industry certifications needed to achieve their occupational goals.

LCSD Students at EMCC School Semester Students Remedial Degree

CHS 2013 Fall 171 36 532014 Spr. 148 25 452014 Fall 171 37 23

NHHS 2013 Fall 262 56 672014 Spr. 233 22 702014 Fall 245 46 35

WLHS 2013 Fall 93 30 192014 Spr. 68 16 192014 Fall 70 19 10

What CTE courses are currently offered at each campus?

WLHSBusinessMasonry

NHHSAuto MechanicsEngineering/RoboticsCo-Op

CHSAllied HealthCarpentry

Did you know that LCSD is

part of an elite group in

Mississippi? That’s right! We are 1 of 3 district’s

in the state whose students don't have

access to a career tech center.

CTE students can earn graduate honors as a Mississippi Scholars Tech Master.

CTE students can work toward earning National Certifications in 6 different areas including MS Construction Education Foundation.

Mississippi Projected Job Openings by Occupation and Education Level until 2020

1. Less than high school - 57,0002.Between high school

diploma and Associates Degree - 308,000

3. Bachelor’s Degree - 73,0004. Master’s Degree or Better -

34,000

A few words about taxes…

Fee In Lieu Tax

Just what is that anyway?

“My taxes won’t go up and Fee In Lieu?”

ad valorem means “based on value or worth”It is a property tax based on a percentage of the county’s assessment of the property’s value.

It is actually a fee in lieu of ad valorem taxes in the amount of 1/3 of the value of the ad valorem tax. Fee in Lieu was charged in effort to attract industry to the Golden Triangle area. The fee in lieu is paid for 10 years and then it rolls off as the industry begins to pay its’ ad valorem tax. We currently receive over $6,000,000 in fee in lieu. This will continue to roll off and become $18,000,000 in ad valorem dollars. This will be a net increase of $12,000,000 in ad valorem tax over the next 6 years. 

Fee In Lieu

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May 12, 2015