Baldwin County Schools is close to completing $341.4 million in new construction projects in an astonishing reversal of fortunes nearly eight years after a previous school construction program was overwhelmingly rejected by voters.
The current program, called “Pay As You Go,” will finance an additional $94 million in projects that could be under construction by fall.
The system is also fortunate voters shot down a property tax increase that school officials sought in 2015. Flashback to 2015: Voters go to the polls on March 31, 2015, to decide the fate of various tax proposals to benefit Baldwin County schools. When the returns came in that evening, tax supporters had suffered pounding defeats. .
Phase 3 was $116 million, followed by Phase 4 at $101.3 million. Parts of Phase 4 are currently under construction or are set to be under construction this year. A new $27.2 million elementary school in Silverhill is expected to be under construction this year.
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