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Ferndale Schools Magazine – 2025 Bond Edition!
Check out the online version here: Ferndale Magazine: 2025 Bond Election Special Edition
Keep an eye on your mailbox this week for the brand-new edition of our Ferndale Schools Magazine, featuring everything you need to know about the upcoming 2025 Bond Proposal before the May 6 election.
This bond proposal, totaling $114.8 million, will provide transformational improvements to the Ferndale Middle and High School building. Focused on creating modern, collaborative learning spaces and ensuring safety and accessibility, the bond will generate these much-needed enhancements. If approved voters can expect no increase in their tax rates.
Key proposed projects include:
A new academic wing to replace the aging 1950s west wing, ensuring separation of middle and high school spaces.
Modernized classrooms and expanded common areas for 21st-century, flexible learning.
Safer entry points and improved student services, particularly for middle schoolers.
Improved fine arts spaces to better serve middle and high school music programs and arts.
This proposal builds on the success of the 2020 bond, which revitalized our elementary school learning environments, aiming to bring equitable improvements to all grade levels.
What is a bond proposal and how can funds from a bond be spent?
A bond proposal is how a public school district asks its community for authorization to borrow money to pay for capital expenditures.
Voter-approved bond funds can be spent on new construction, additions, remodeling, site improvements, athletic facilities, playgrounds, buses, furnishings, equipment, and other capital needs.
Funds raised through the sale of bonds cannot be used on operational expenses such as employee salaries and benefits, school supplies, and textbooks.
Bond funds must be kept separate from operating funds and expenditures must be audited by an independent auditing firm.
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