The board has included approximate locations for buildings in the ballot but hopes to name exact sites before the Feb. 26 election. It's undetermined what any of these schools would look like. Board President Michael Yura has said each school will create a design committee composed of teachers, parents and students to work with the architects. What the bond does promise is new high schools and middle schools on both ends of the county. It would share the plot with the new Cheat Lake Middle.
Plans call for six new elementaries.
Children from Woodburn Elementary and those who live in the Jerome Park area would attend the City Elementary. And children from Riverside and Westover elementaries and part of Waitman Barbe Elementary would attend Westwood Elementary. The middle schools and Cheat Lake Elementary would get interior renovations. North would get an expansion to eliminate portable classrooms set up behind the school. The school is about to start another construction project paid for by money generated by refinancing the 1989 bond.