The financial structure of the State
Public School Building Fund is made up of three interlocking, yet distinct
features: (1) annual grants to school districts; (2) legislative funding
of the program; and (3) state school bonds. The Mississippi Board of Education
approved building projects as follows during 1996-97:
Number Approved | Total Cost | Public School Building Funds | |
Long Range Plans | 47 | $171,655,362 | |
Applications | 78 | 30,037,905 | $13,041,155 |
Supplementary Applications | 15 | 1,921,525 | |
Contracts | 55 | 29,621,956 | 10,680,832 |
Change Orders | 127 | 1,366,559 | 5,631 |
Final Project Approvals | 71 | 24,182,713 | 11,538,922 |
Project Cancellations | 9 | 1,905,910 | 1,029,681 |
School Year | School District | Amount | Passed/Failed | Percentage
of Voters
For / Against |
1996-97 | Coahoma Co. | $ 6,500,000.00 | Passed | 73% / 27% |
Hancock Co. | 20,000,000.00 | Passed | 64% / 36% | |
Bay St. Louis-Waveland | 9,000,000.00 | Passed | 75% / 25% | |
Harrison Co. | 23,000,000.00 | Passed | 73% / 27% | |
Pass Christian | 10,100,000.00 | Passed | 69% / 31% | |
JacksonCo. | 13,800,000.00 | Passed | 84% / 16% | |
West Jasper | 6,400,000.00 | Failed | 32% / 68% | |
Canton | 6,230,000.00 | Passed | 78% / 22% | |
Pearl River Co. | 5,100,000.00 | Passed | 70% / 30% | |
Pearl Public | 7,000,000.00
2,400,000.00 |
Passed
Failed |
64% / 36%
58% / 42% |
|
Lincoln Co. | 5,288,000.00 | 4 Propositions | ||
Proposition #1 | 3,500,000.00 | Failed | 53% / 47% | |
Proposition #2 | 1,488,000.00 | Passed | 64% / 36% | |
Proposition #3 | 200,000.00 | Passed | 65% / 35% | |
Proposition #4 | 100,000.00 | Failed | 52% / 48% |