The Omaha Public School district is in the process of solving their superintendent problem for the next school year, and board members are looking ahead.
Parents were worried the search for a superintendent might cost them a second bond that would build new schools.
Tuesday night parents in Northwest Omaha discussed where the second bond issue stands.
The $421 million bond that was passed in 2014 is on time and scheduled according to board members, but now it’s time to look to phase two that would add two more high schools to the district. One of those high schools being built on land purchased by OPS near 156th and Ida st.
“It is something that the whole district needs, not just one area, the district is spreading in different directions and has different needs,” said OPS parents Shawn Bonge.
“Right now none of what is being done addresses overpopulation at the high schools,” added parent Anne Belshan.
The district missed a March 20th deadline to get the bond on the May 9th ballot, and some of the parents are hoping to get a mail-in ballot.
“There are a lot of things that go into that; one, what is the cost and two, is that something the pubic would receive well, we have never done that in Omaha,” said OPS board member Lou Ann Goding.
Goding said the board members need to sit down and figure out what their timeline is going to be for the next bond, and having made a decision on the superintendent search will help with that.
“You can’t stop all your work for one issue and I think it looks like we have reached a place of stability with Mr. Evan for the next year,” said Goding.
She said within the next month or so the board should be able to figure out where they want to go with the next bond.
