Voters will head to the polls in one week to vote on a $42 million school bond issue in St Joseph.

The issue would extend a tax for another 14 years to build two new schools

An architect involved in the project, Reed Graves of St Joseph, says the schools would have a tremendous local affect on the economy.

“368 direct on site jobs, that’s the carpenters and the brick layers…186 supplying industy jobs, those or the cabinet makers, electrical suppliers… 553 induced jobs,” Graves. Said. “

Induced jobs are those jobs created by the workers and the owners of those construction companies spending their money in town.

“Through the workers, through the gas companies that they buy their gas in town, from the groceries they buy, all of that. It provides $131, 580,000 in gross domestic product.”

He says that is a huge number, but adds that is what happens when you introduce that kind of money into a local economy that needs the money.