The superintendent says it wasn’t very hard to take a few more days to think about asking voters to approve revenue bonds for new schools in Saint Joseph. Melody Smith says it amounts to waiting nine days to decide whether to go to the voters in April, or about 200 days later in November, which isn’t much when we’ve waited 14,800 days since building our last school.

Smith says if the school board decides not to put the issue on the April ballot, the new school board elected in April will pick the ballot date. The $87.9-million revenue bond issue could be pared to a smaller amount by delaying some of the projects to the second phase of the improvement plan. The board will meet in special session January 18th to decide whether to go in April, and if so, what the ballot language will be.