July 28, 1999
Clyde-Green Springs voters head to the polls Aug. 3
By Cathy Willoughby
Staff Writer
GREEN SPRINGS -- Voters in the Clyde-Green Springs School district will have a chance soon to express their wishes on improvements to school facilities.
A 1.7-mill bond levy is the only local ballot issue on the Aug. 3 election day. It would raise about $4.27 million during a 25-year period. And school officials are hoping that residents of the district will cast their votes for changes to both South Main Elementary in Clyde and Clyde High School.
The first part of the project to be done will be the addition of eight classrooms to South Main Elementary, as well as a new heating system for the school. Plans are to retire a modular unit that has housed two classrooms since 1970.
Rooms would be 30 by 30 feet and would be constructed on the west side of the building. Along with the classrooms will be added ADA restrooms for faculty and additional student restrooms, a custodian closet and mechanical room. The estimated cost for that portion of the overall project is $1.35 million.
The high school addition would be constructed on the west side of that building and would total 28,210 square feet. The area was planned after consultation with teachers in the music and drama departments, and reflects more storage, dressing and practice spaces, as well as a 792-seat auditorium and orchestra pit. The addition also will feature large instrumental and voice studios, dressing rooms and scene shops behind the stage. The cost of this addition would be $2,920,000.
If the issue is passed, Superintendent Dave Danhoff said that work on the additional classrooms at South Main would begin in November at the earliest, yet could wait until March.
The proposed high school auditorium would begin in the spring of next year. "It will take nine months to complete that project,'' Danhoff said. "It will not be until the 2000-2001 school year, about mid-year at the earliest, before they will be able to have their first production in the new facility.
"We are very hopeful that this time it will pass,'' he said. "We are positive that the people in the district who supported it in the past will still support it, and we are hoping to receive enough positive votes to make it go.''
Some polling places have been consolidated by the Sandusky and Seneca boards of elections. In Seneca County, polling places Pleasant north and Green Springs Village have been combined and will vote in Green Springs, at the city hall, 120 South Catherine St. Adams A and B precincts have been combined also and polls will be open at the VFW hall at the corner of SR 778 and CR 44.
In Sandusky County, the following polls will be open: Clyde A (Clyde Junior High); Clyde B (Masonic Temple, 160 Buckeye St.); Clyde C, D and E (Municipal Building, Main Street); Clyde F and Green Creek D (First United Methodist Church, Race and Maple streets); Green Creek A, Riley B and Townsend B (Lakeshore Sports Center, 1701 W. McPherson Hwy.); Green Creek B (Clyde Senior High, Race Street); Green Creek C and Ballville A (Green Creek Township, Limerick Road/CR 197); Green Springs (United Methodist Church, 117 N. Broadway); and York A and B (York School, US 20).