Herald staff
MARYSVILLE — Citizens will get a chance to share their ideas on a $140 million plan to improve facilities in the Marysville School District, beginning Monday.
Citizens for Marysville Schools, a group supporting the effort, is organizing the meetings with the help of a consulting firm. The discussion groups will be made up of volunteers, who are already in line to participate.
A newsletter from the group says the plan includes a new high school for 1,600 students that could be filled practically as fast as it is built. Marysville-Pilchuck High School was built in 1970 for 1,900 students. It now has 2,700 students.
A new middle school for grades six and seven would be built at 152nd Street NE for 1,000 students.
Three elementary schools would be built for 600 students each. A new one would be built at a new site, while Cascade Elementary and Liberty Elementary would be replaced on their current sites.
Upgrades and renovations would occur at many other schools in the district.
The state would provide $30 million for construction. The news release says the average homeowner in the district would pay $340 a year, or about $28 a month, to raise the other $110 million.
The newsletter also states that the district has used portables to deal with growth in the past, but that the sites have reached their limit with 100 portables.
The deadline to sign up to participate in today’s meetings has passed, but they will take place at noon and 2:45 p.m. at the Marysville Public Library, 6120 Grove St.; noon, 2:45, 6 and 7:30 p.m. at Cascade Bank, 815 State Ave.; and 6 and 7:30 p.m. at the Edward Jones office, 1800 Fourth St., Suite. C.
The co-chairs of the group are Steve Muller at muller—s@msn.com and Deirdre Kvangnes at deekva@aol.com, or send mail to the group at P.O. Box 1708, Marysville, WA 98270.
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