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A community meeting was held Wednesday to discuss the options facing the Northwood School District on its chance to use Ohio School Facilities Commission funds to help build new schools.
The state is willing to pay for 35 percent of any plan approved by both the local board and OSFC.
The remaining 65 percent, plus any locally funding initiatives, would be up to district taxpayers.
The state started the funding program in 1997; Northwood ranks 397 on the list of 612 districts in Ohio. Already, Elmwood, North Baltimore, Otsego and Lakota have used OSFC monies to build new schools.
The district has several options, each differing in scope and work, with expected differences in cost:
• a new PK-12 building: It would be built to hold 922 students, be approximately 130,000 square feet, and cost $28.9 million. The cost to demolish and have asbestos abatement of all existing school buildings is $3.2 million. The total cost is $32.1 million, with the local share being $20.8 million, or 7.2 to 8.0 mills of property tax.