Valley News
January 10, 2019
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District to Place $7.5 Million Bond Issue on April Ballot
The Grain Valley School Board adopted language during a January 3rd workshop which will place a $7.5 Million bond issue on the ballot in April to allow for an addition of 1 ½ classroom wings onto North Middle School and for other possible improvements in the school district. An eventual addition was planned for North Middle School when it was built in 2010. If the bond issue passes, the addition will add at least 17 classrooms, another set of student restrooms, and more parking at the school. Passage of this bond issue does not require raising the district tax levy rate of $1.7000 per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation of real and personal property. The approved ballot language states: "Shall the Board of Education of the Grain Valley R-V School District of Jackson County, Missouri, without an estimated increase in the current debt service property tax levy, borrow money in the amount of Seven Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($7,500,000) for the purpose of providing funds for the site development, construction, renovation, equipping, and furnishing of a middle school addition; to complete other repairs and improvements to all school facilities; and issue bonds for the payment thereof?” If approved, construction on the middle school addition would begin in the summer of 2019 and would open by fall 2020. Additional repairs and improvements at all school facilities are mentioned in the ballot language and the district has begun to develop a list of proposed projects. “We plan to list the replacement of the artificial turf at the high school stadium as an alternate bid on this bond issue and are getting estimates on other projects that could be added to the list of alternate bids yet this spring,” Dr. Brad Welle, Deputy Superintendent, Student and Community Services said.
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Good News
Grain Valley Special Olympics Brings Home Gold The Grain Valley Special Olympics 5v5 basketball team and 3v3 basketball teams brought home gold medals, and Christopher Hernandez received Gold in
the Individual Skills Competition on Saturday, January 5th during the Area Competition held in Belton, Missouri.
Assistance Council Serves Needs Year-Round Grain Valley Assistance Council (GVAC) completed its Christmas Store in December, serving 41 families who were able to shop for presents for their children. GVAC also delivered 64 Christmas food baskets. The needs of low-income families in Grain Valley do not end at the holidays, however. Donations of boxed dinners, canned meat, peanut butter, jelly, pancake mix, canned meals canned vegetables, and personal care items are always needed. Donations can be
dropped off in containers near the entrance of the Grain Valley Cosentino’s Price Chopper or delivered to GVAC. According to Site Manager Donna Compton, GVAC is planning to move to a new location in the old Nichols building near their current location at First Baptist of Grain Valley. The Nichols building was purchased by the City of Grain Valley in 2018, and GVAC will lease and renovate two units at the end of the building.
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Pictured: 3v3 Grain Valley Special Olympics Basketball Team Left to Right: Coach Amanda Chrisman, Adien Chrisman, Kaleb Miller, Ashton Qualkinbush, Easton Albertson, Trinity Keel, Coach Brooke Scollin Photo credit: Amanda Chrisman
