Bartlesville Public Schools

August 10, 2021 Bond Issue

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2013 76% Yes

$36.7 million for 9-12 at BHS, Central renovated, Madison relocated, district-wide security, technology, and furnishings

2016 70% Yes

$19.5 million for operational funding to preserve class sizes, extracurricular renovations at Madison, BHS, and Central auditorium plus renovations at Hoover and Jane Phillips

2019 81% Yes

$18 million for operational funding, technology, Agricultural Education Building, maintenance & facilities, replace Custer Stadium pressbox, safety, transportation

2021

≅$28 million with NO INCREASE IN THE TAX RATE

Overall categories in the $28.5 million bond issue

$6.75 million

$6.3 million

$5 million

$2.6 million

$1.8 million

$1.8 million

$2

million

Facilities: Agricultural Center

≅$6.75 million (24%)

Facility for animal and plant programs, including labs, small show arena, barns, production lean-to, and greenhouses

Facilities: Agricultural Center

≅$6.75 million (24%)

Oil wells access road

Ball practice fields south of student parking lot

Shawnee Ave / Jim Bohnsack Avenue

Pathfinder Access

• Agriculture program began in 2019 and grew to serve 85 students this year, 149 requests for 2021-22
• In its first appearance at the State FFA Interscholastics Contest this year, Bartlesville was the State Champion in Agricultural Communications Career Development

Facilities: Agricultural Center

≅$6.75 million (24%)

• Located south of the BHS student parking lot and ball fields on Shawnee Avenue
• Built up above 100-year flood level, relocating existing floodplain material to avoid increasing area flooding
• Animals pens would be over 750 feet, more than the length of two football fields, from the nearest residence
• Provide parking & access for the Shawnee Trailhead of the Pathfinder Parkway & relocate Shawnee Trails disc golf course

Existing Agriculture Education Building’s classrooms/shop would still be used daily, but not for animal and plant projects

Small show arena with labs, animal barns, lean-to, and greenhouses.

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Enlarged Pathfinder Parkway parking lot south of practice fields would also serve the Agricultural Center

Facility projects

≅$6.3 million (22%)

Wide variety of site projects, including:

• Efficient LED lighting in all classrooms and corridors
• Working accurate clocks in all elementary & middle school classrooms and corridors
• Refinish & replace elementary school gymnasium floors
• Update stage rigging at middle schools and high school

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Facility projects

≅$6.3 million (22%)

• Update all elementary and middle school exterior marquees with electronic signs
• Improve entries, offices, and front façades at Kane and Wilson

Replace Wilson Elementary’s

low and dark entry

with an expanded office and high glass-walled lobby

Facility projects

≅$6.3 million (22%)

Replace Kane’s low porch with an attractive office expansion featuring a high glass-walled lobby

Technology

≅$5 million (18%)

• Mobile devices ($2.5 million)
• Chromebooks
• Maintain 3-5 year refresh cycle for 1:1 student and teacher Chromebooks at all grade levels
• Cellular hotspots for home checkout
• iPads
• Refresh STEM iPad carts at each elementary
• Other hardware ($500,000)
• Refresh teacher/staff desktop computers

Technology

≅$5 million (18%)

• Software & services ($1.5 million)
• Canvas, Seesaw, Google services, and many more tools for both in-person and virtual teaching
• Adaptive learning tools
• PowerSchool and various administrative services
• Technology Infrastructure ($500,000)
• Maintenance, replacement, and operation of district network switches and servers, telephones, etc.

Curricular

≅$2.6 million (9%)

• STEM/Science/Broadcasting
• ≅$340,000 per annum for FY24 and FY25
• Maintain PreK-12 STEM programs, including refreshing the secondary STEM computer labs and the elementary modules, supporting PreK-12 pathways in computer science & engineering
• Science lab equipment
• Broadcasting equipment

Central’s STEM Animation Team took

1st Place at both the state & national competitions

Central’s Tissue Team won its World Champion Division in VEX Robotics

Curricular

≅$2.6 million (9%)

• Textbooks
• ≅$870,000 per annum for FY24 and FY25
• Physical textbooks with online resources for elementary students
• Electronic textbooks for most secondary students for use with their Chromebooks
• Library books, software, and eBooks
• ≅$84,000 per annum for FY24 and FY25

Athletics

≅$1.8 million (6.5%)

• Indoor practice facilities
• ≅$1.1 million to replace the baseball practice facility at Doenges Stadium and build a new softball/golf facility west of Madison MS
• Will help free up the Bruin Activity Center at BHS for others

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Athletics

≅$1.8 million (6.5%)

• Replace visitor seating at Custer Stadium

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• Replace Doornbos Track surface at BHS

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• Annual equipment needs in FY24-25

Maintenance & improving existing facilities

≅$1.8 million (6.4%)

• Various known issues to be addressed, in full or in part, with existing bond funds and an additional $840,000 per annum in FY24 and FY25 from 2021 bond
• Carpet and flooring
• Roofs
• HVAC & restroom renovations not paid by federal ESSER funding
• Various buildings and grounds maintenance projects, including transportation center surfacing and gates

Fine Arts

≅$470,000 (1.6%)

Transportation

≅$650,000 (2.3%)

• Band and orchestra instruments, choir/band/orchestra uniforms, etc.
• Plus the above band vehicles, various auditorium improvements in Facility Projects, etc.

• Maintain our fleet of smaller passenger vehicles for student and staff travel
• Band box trucks, semi-tractor, and trailer

Site Needs/Safety, Print Shop

≅$500,000 (1.8%)

• Site Needs/Safety

$300,000 for site-specific needs and safety updates

• Printing

$200,000 for copier/scanners, duplicators

Questions

• Email questions@bruinbond.com

Passage of this bond issue

would NOT increase the tax rate