ROYAL CITY - Royal School District's upcoming construction bond proposal of $8.75 million will be presented to voters in February, and the administration is trying to make information as accessible as possible.

One way the Facilities Planning Committee is helping to explain all of this is with Voter Information Block Parties.

A Block Party is an informal gathering with you and your neighbors to sit down and talk openly about the needs of the school and the bond details. A school district representative will show a video presentation and have a variety of handouts available for participants.

The school representative can stay for questions if the host would like or turn the time over to the group. Anyone wanting to host or attend a Block Party is encouraged to call the Royal School District at 346-2222 for more information.

If passed, the sale of bonds would add four classrooms and a bank of bathrooms to the High School and redesign the fifth-grade building into an intermediate school to house fourth- through sixth-graders, including a full cooking kitchen, multipurpose room, computer lab, library and classrooms.

It is projected that the bond proposal would cost voters $1.19 per $1,000 of assessed value. If your house is assessed at $100,000 you would pay $119 per year, or about $9.92 per month.

"Even with the proposed bond proposal, Royal School District would still have the lowest school tax rate in Grant County," Business Manager David Andra said.

The District would have a total tax rate of $3.26 per $1,000. Other districts have rates as high as $5.79 per $1,000.