The proposed new Junction City High School is not on hold.

Dr. Corbin Witt, USD 475 Superintendent of Schools, said that based on the new school funding legislation, now is the last time the District could afford a bond issue big enough for a new school project.

While the campaign has been more silent in recent weeks, Witt contends that the intent is still to move forward with the proposed bond issue.

“We don’t want to start too soon, because our concern was that if you peak too soon then you may lose some interest; and we don’t want to lose interest, we want people to be interested and get out and vote for the bond issue.”

Witt added that officials will begin “sharing the facts” with the community again very soon.

The District will be able to put a proposed bond issue before voters in the November general elections for a ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ vote. The community would have to vote in favor of the project in order for the State to pay for 48 percent of the cost of a new high school.

Matt Droge, Executive Director of Communications for USD 475, said that they will begin releasing a lot of information in the next month.

“We’re redoing a webpage within one of the District’s websites to outline all the information that anyone might want to know about the project; it’s important to the District that voters go out and vote informed – so we want to be able to provide them that information.”

In addition to State aid, District officials have proposed using Heavily Impacted Aid from the Federal Government for the project.