5/7/19 – 9:34 P.M.

The Liberty Benton school district will build a new pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade facility. Voters in the district approved a 35-year property tax includes that 6.8 mills for construction and another half-mill for continued maintenance of the new building.

Superintendent Mark Kowalski says communication was the key to passing the issue this time around…

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66 percent of the ballots cast were in favor of the levy. The issue also pays for renovations at the high school and a new auditorium.

Kowalski believes they’ll start the planning process for a new building in the early fall.