White Plains CitizeNetReporter - Voters Pass $48.3 Million Bond Issue by 3 to 1. 1,025 Turnout

WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. By John F. Bailey. October 23, 2012: The six school district polling places in White Plains closed at 9 P.M. tonight. Unofficial vote tallies, including absentee ballots tabulated at White Plains Education House show the $48.3 Million bond issue to reroof and refurbish Eastview Middle School for $22 Million (the improvements will condition the school to last another 30 years, Board of Education Member Peter Bassano said), "Wi-Fi" all White Plains schools for $4.2 Million and finish improvements to the 7 other schools for an additional $22 Million has passed. The results showed 755 voting yes and 270 against in the total registered voter turnout of 1,025. Dr. Christopher Clouet told WPCNR, "I'm very happy with the result. I'm pleased voters came out and supported it by a 3 to 1 margin, showing that our schools are a big part of our city, and that they appreciate our older school buildings and want to keep them a part of city." Fred Seiler, Assistant Superintendent for Business, told WPCNR, that the first part of the project would be to bring H2M of White Plains, in as architect on the Eastview Middle School roof project first, in order to get plans in to the State Education Department by December 31, in hopes of getting approval in the spring. He said the gutting of the roof was expected to begin in June or July. Bond Anticipation Notes would be issued to start financing the project, with the major borrowing taking place in June, Seiler said. Six years ago almost to the day,October 19, the White Plains voters passed the second $69.6 Million in its current effort to improve the school buildings since the high school was improved from 2000 to 2003 with a $28 Million bond issue. That $69.6 Million referendum built a new Post Road School and undertook the first wave of school improvements across the district under the Timothy Connors Superintendency, by a much closer vote, 1050 to 934, almost double today's turnout of voters.
In 2000, the White Plains School District passed a $28 Million bond to refurbish White Plains High School. It has borrowed $142 Million to upgrade the district buildings in the last 12 years.


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