Las Cruces Voters to Decide on School Facilities Bond

Officials with the Las Cruces Public Schools are anticipating a wide variety of facility construction and upgrade projects, depending upon the fortunes of a $50 million bond to be decided upon by voters next month.

One of the largest items to be funded by the bond will see $11 million going for the building of new maintenance facilities at the current site of the district’s operations annex in the 1500 block of Tashiro Drive.

Kitchen space at both the Highland Elementary School at 4201 Emerald Street and the Lynn Middle School at 950 S. Walnut Street are both slated to be remodeled at a cost of $2.5 million each.

Just under $2 million will target the building of an interior wall at the Zia Middle School at 1300 New Mexico State Road 101, while security updates to nearly a dozen schools, totaling $1.3 million, will go for the building of new fences, safety doors, and the installation of intercom systems.

The bond will additionally provide $350,000 in funding for the construction of a bus loop, also at the Zia Middle School.

Exactly $1 million will go for Americans with Disabilities Act compliance projects throughout the district.

In a sign of the school district’s continued growth, $5.6 million will be partly used to acquire land that may be used for future building projects.

With around 25,000 student and 40 schools, the Las Cruces Public Schools system comprises the second largest district in New Mexico.

​By Garry Boulard

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