Twenty-seven school districts are asking for one or both kinds of voter-approved funding on the Nov. 7 ballot. Bond issues pay for construction projects. Mill levy overrides cover operational costs. A mill levy override allows a school district to collect more taxes than current assessment formulas allow.
All enrollment figures are for the 2005-2006 school year.
Adams Brighton 27J
Enrollment: 10,450
Bonds: $89 million
Purpose: Adds two elementary schools, two middle schools, improve security features and air-conditioning.
Adams Commerce City 14
Enrollment: 6,868
Bonds: $78 million
Purpose: Add a high school-community college campus, air-conditioning for existing schools, expand elementary schools for all-day kindergarten, and upgrade science rooms and labs.
Mill-levy override: $458,000
Purpose: Construction of the Community Leadership Academy charter school
Adams Westminster 50
Enrollment: 10,755
Bonds: $98.6 million
Purpose: Build a high school, an elementary school, repair or remodel schools and other facilities.
Arapahoe Sheridan 2
Enrollment: 1,770
Bonds: $12.86 million
Purpose: Replace trailers and barracks with school wings, upgrade or provide heating and air-conditioning, add high school science labs, remodel elementary school cafeteria, remodel high school locker rooms.
Mill levy override: $1 million
Purpose: Salaries, staff and programs.
Baca Campos Re-6
Enrollment: 52
Mill-levy override: $150,000
Purpose: Maintain existing programs and teacher salaries.
Boulder-Broomfield Boulder Valley Re-2
Enrollment: 27,938
Bonds: $296.8 million
Purpose: To repair, improve or enlarge schools, administration space and grounds, as well as replace boilers, add classrooms, repair roofs and improve science facilities.
Douglas County Re-1
Enrollment: 48,043
Bonds: $200 million
Purpose: To build eight schools, renovate eight others, add a district stadium and other improvements.
Mill-levy override: $5 million
Purpose: To add literacy and language programs, as well as provide money to individual schools to use for curriculum.
Eagle County Re-50
Enrollment: 5,365
Bonds: $128 million
Purpose: Add a high school and elementary school, remodel existing high school for other uses, buy land for future schools, repair and upgrade facilities and improve technology throughout the district.
El Paso Lewis-Palmer 38
Enrollment: 5,843
Bonds: $57 million
Purpose: To build a second high school and to make improvements at existing Lewis-Palmer High School.
Mill-levy override: $2.362 million
Purpose: $2 million for operating cost at new high school, and $362,000 for operations at Monument Academy.
El Paso Manitou Springs 14
Enrollment: 1,355
Mill-levy override: $1 million
Purpose: Salaries and building maintenance.
Garfield Re-2
Enrollment: 4,024
Bonds: $74.9 million
Purpose: Upgrade existing schools.
Mill-levy override: $1.6 million
Purpose: Additional teachers and staff.
Garfield 16
Enrollment: 1,033
Bonds: $35 million
Purpose: Build a middle school, renovate existing buildings to relieve overcrowding and meet maintenance, transportation and storage needs.
Gilpin County Re-1
Enrollment: 362
Mill-levy override: $271,000
Purpose: Technology
East Grand County 2
Enrollment: 1,338
Mill-levy override: $600,000
Purpose: Transportation and technology needs.
West Grand County 1-JT
Enrollment: 512
Bonds: $11.5 million
Purpose: Build a pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school and repair the roof, electrical system, heating another high priority needs at the high school.
Larimer Park R-3
Enrollment: 1,265
Bonds: $22.4 million
Purpose: Additions and renovations at existing school sites.
Mill-levy override: $740,000
Purpose: Salaries, benefits and programs.
Larimer Thompson R-2J
Enrollment: 15,108
Mill-levy override: $4.15 million with a cap of $6.73 million
Purpose: To maintain existing staffing levels, staff and operate the new schools and additions.
Las Animas Primero Re-2
Enrollment: 240
Mill-levy override: $300,000
Purpose: Technology, programs, staff training and capital needs.
Lawrence Limon Public Schools M
Enrollment: 542
Mill-levy override: $250,000
Purpose: To ensure an adequate general fund balance.
Montezuma Mancos Re-6
Enrollment: 414
Mill-levy override: $57,800
Purpose: Continue an existing mill-levy override for transportation, technology and security.
Montezuma Cortez Re-1
Enrollment: 3,265
Mill-levy override: $1.58 million
Purpose: Curriculum and teacher pay raises.
Montrose West End Re-2
Enrollment: 318
Bonds: $248,000
Purpose: Salaries.
Routt Steamboat Springs Re-2
Enrollment: 1,979
Bonds: $29.7 million
Purpose: A new elementary school and renovations to the existing elementary school.
Mill-levy override: $600,000 up to $800,000
Purpose: Salary and benefit increases, housing assistance and training for teachers and staff.
San Miguel Telluride
Enrollment: 616
Mill-levy override: $408,000
Purpose: Pay raises for teachers and staff.
Weld Ault Highland Re-9
Enrollment: 833
Mill-levy override: $900,000
Purpose: Expand a middle school, renovate a playground and increase teachers’ salaries.
Weld Fort Lupton
Enrollment: 2,531
Mill levy override: $3.1 million
Purpose: Pay raises, textbooks and computers, and buses.
Weld Prairie
Enrollment: 158
Mill-levy override: $75,000
Purpose: Transportation fuel costs.
Sources: Colorado Association of School Executives/The Denver Post
