Cheney School Board to send bond to voters

The Cheney School Board voted 4-0 at a Dec. 1 workshop to officially “direct district administration to work with bond counsel to prepare a resolution submitting such capital projects and bonds to the district’s voters on Feb. 14, 2017.”

In other words, the Cheney School District is trying a third time to get voters to approve a bond renovating the district’s high school. This time, however, the district’s $52 million proposal will also address overcrowding issues through expansion at three elementary schools, along with other improvements.

The district failed twice in 2015 to get the needed 6...