{"id":2457501,"date":"2020-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=324689"},"modified":"2020-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:00:00","slug":"aspen-school-board-not-giving-up-on-bond-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-school-board-not-giving-up-on-bond-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen school board not giving up on bond question"},"content":{"rendered":"
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School board members as recently as March were discussing the idea of asking voters to approve around $30 million in bonds for major on-campus capital improvements, but that was when public meetings were held in-person and the globe wasn\u2019t in the throes of a pandemic.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday during a board meeting conducted by video conference on Google Hangouts, the five-member board wasn\u2019t ready to abandon the bond question despite the crippled economy. The board instead agreed that it wants to see how the next few months play out before deciding whether the bond question should be posed to the Aspen School District electorate this fall.<\/p>\n

The board must let the county clerk know by July 24 \u2014 100 days before the Nov. 3 election \u2014 if it plans to bring a bond question to the general election, according to the Colorado Secretary of State\u2019s election calendar.<\/a><\/i> The board has until the end of August to adopt ballot language.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point we\u2019re feeling like it\u2019s sort of a good idea to go for this and to take this to the voters,\u201d board President Susan Marolt said. \u201cBut we also have seen a lot of things change in the last month that we never thought would change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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