WINONA, Minn. – The Winona School Board unanimously approved a two-question referendum for April. One question befor voters will be for classroom and building improvements, the other for extracurricular spaces.
> Buildings ($72.5 million): Includes updating vocation-oriented high school facilities; improving handicap accessibility issues at old buildings; enlarging a cafeteria at Jefferson and Washington-Kosciusko elementary schools; and catching up on deferred maintenance to extend the life of buildings. These items would hike property taxes on a $200,00 house by $177 a year.
> Extracurriculars ($21.7 million): Includes expanding the high school gym and remodeling the high school music area. These would hike property taxes an additional $77 a year on a $200,000 house.
Option 1
Goodview elementary
> Remodel and modernize classrooms.
> Provide new flexible furniture.
Deferred maintenance: Code upgrades; boiler plant; upgrade air conditioning and ventilation; replace classroom casework; replace gym floor; replace exterior windows; replace plumbing fixtures; provide water softener; remodel toilets; improve site drainage.
Jefferson elementary
> Remodel classrooms to modernize.
> Construct addition for new cafeteria and student support spaces.
> Provide new flexible furniture
Deferred maintenance: Code upgrades; replace gym doors; replace playground; remodel toilets; replace exterior windows; add data and electrical outlets; provide accessible path to stadium; repair exterior stairs; provide water softener.
Washington-Kosciusko elementary
> Remodel classroom to modernize.
> Construct addition for new cafeteria and student support spaces.
> New flexible furniture
Deferred maintenance: Code upgrades; replace gym doors; replace exterior window; add data and electrical outlets; replace exterior stairs; provide water softener.l
Middle School
Deferred Maintenance: Replace toilet partition; refurbish and update boiler plant; install high efficiency water heater; increase chiller capacity; replace roof.
High school
> Create flexible learning spaces.
> Remodel information technology learning area.
> Remodel to accommodate emotional-behavioral disorder setting.
> Provide new flexible furniture
Deferred maintenance: Meet federal handicap- accessibility standards.
Alternative learning center
> Remodeling for activity and fitness
Deferred maintenance: Replace lighting; improve controls on geothermal system; provide supplementary boiler; add perimeter
Paul Giel Field
Deferred maintenance: Remodel toilets; upgrade bleachers to code.
Option 2 I(if Option 1 approved)
High school
> Remodel general classrooms.
> Remodel locker rooms for gender equity.
> Remodel music areas.
> Add gym section, new locker rooms.
Deferred maintenance: Remodel toilets; bleacher upgrades for code.