Tuesday April 1st, Arrowhead High School failed to pass a referendum for improvements to the school which would reduce cost for needed facilities improvements while investing in AHS students. Now Arrowhead High School must find alternative ways to get money.
Until the School Board meets to discuss how it wants to move forward, there is no way to predict what comes next for the school or its students.
According to superintendent Mr. Farner, the school board could decide to;
- Ask the community to allow the district to borrow money needed to get everyone in one building.
- Ask the community to allow the district to borrow money needed to maintain the two old buildings
- Ask the community to approve increasing taxes to help cover the cost to maintain the two old buildings
“It is accurate to say that the buildings do need repairs, but as a non-profit, public, educational institution that was created by, and relies on, taxpayer dollars, there really is no such thing as ‘alternative funding’; at least nothing that can be considered sustainable,” Farner said.
Arrowhead High School can start a fundraising campaign or ask for donations for the school, but with the amount of money Arrowhead needs, the fundraising and donations wouldn’t generate enough money to reach their goal of restoring their facilities.
Arrowhead could also decide to sell naming rights for some of the facilities, for example, selling the rights of the soccer field to a company like Sweet Dreams, or Sendik’s but… the school would not be able to sell the rights for enough money.
With Arrowheads referendum failing, the school needs to find other ways to fix the issues without help from the community. In conclusion, with Arrowhead being a public, non profit school, created on tax payers dollars, there is really no such thing as alternate funding.
