Third High School Up for Another Vote Monday Night

The fate of Oswego’s often debated third high school likely will be decided Monday night.

board members are set to vote on an agenda item listed as “The Board of Education will direct the administration to terminate all planning and design for the construction of, and all transactions pertaining to, the third high school.”

A separate board action items is listed as “The Board of Education will be asked to advise the administration as to how to proceed on the high school capacity issue(s).”

to both and in recent months. The price tag for the work came in at nearly $80 million at the high end.

If the board wants to move ahead with additions, a decision would need to be made by the first board meeting in September, according to Assistant Superintendent for Business and Finance Tim Neubauer.

If bonds are to be sold for the construction, the district will need to begin the process in September. The district still has the authority to sell about $246 million more in bonds for construction, but that runs out Nov. 6. The bonds must be sold by that date to obtain the funds, Neubauer said.

The district still holds about $10 million from $32 million in bonds sold in December.

The board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the community room at Oswego East High School.