Trimmed-Down Chapel Hill Bond Proposal on May Ballot

CHAPEL HILL — Voters in the Chapel Hill school district will see a smaller bond option on their May ballots after voters said no to last November’s bond. KETK reports the district called for a $21 million bond at Monday night’s meeting. The bond focuses on increased security, enrollment issues, and increased academic opportunities for students. After the November bond failed, district officials sent out surveys to find out what voters would be willing to vote for in a new bond proposal. Now officials say they’ve trimmed it down, and that the items listed on the proposal “are the definite needs of the district and…lined up with what the public says they want.” The proposal is roughly $10 million less than the bond proposed in November.