The Greene County School District will try a bond referendum again in September.

This past September, the district proposed a $20 million bond referendum, and over 60 percent voted against the measure. Superintendent Tim Christensen says instead of bringing it back to another vote in April, they wanted to do a better job of informing the community.

“That’s feedback that we got back from the first one is that we need to do a better job of educating the public. I think the feeling was if we try to do it too quick, we’ll do an inadequate job of educating people, so putting it off made the most sense.”

The bond was suppose to add additional classrooms to the elementary and high schools to reduce the number of school buildings from five down to three. Christensen explains a backup plan with Shive Hattery, the project architect.

“Architects were in probably three weeks ago (and) toured all of our current facilities, because whether a bond referendum passes or doesn’t pass, we need to look at the fact that we’re going to operate a school district for (the next) 50 years and we need those facilities. So again, if it’s not building new, what’s it look like to update our existing facilities.”

He adds that they are still planning on how to implement more education to the public ahead of the next bond vote.