A school district based in metro Phoenix and Tempe is hoping to secure $161 million in new bonds to fund a series of school facility projects.
The Kyrene School District is a K to 8 district that is served by just over two dozen individual schools of varying sizes.
The $161 million bond to be decided on by voters in November will largely go for security upgrades at all of the district’s schools as well as the District Office complex in Tempe.
Those upgrades include building front office security spaces and perimeter campus fencing, as well as putting in new security cameras.
Because most of the buildings in the district were built before 1990, the bond funding will also pay for heating and cooling system upgrades, updated electrical systems, and overall structural repairs and improvements.
Voters in the Kyrene School District last approved a school facilities bond in 2017. That $117 million bond has since gone to pay for school building repairs and upgrades, as well as the replacement of an underground fuel tank.
By Garry Boulard
