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Mason City school board to get details on proposed new gymnasium and swimming pool

Mason City School Administration Building on South Penn Avenue

MASON CITY – The Mason City school board will meet Monday night and talk about proposed projects to build a new gymnasium and swimming pool, potentially costing beleaguered taxpayers millions of dollars.

Superintendent Dave Versteeg will provide an update to the board on the request for proposals for the schematic design planning for the proposed Mason City High School auxiliary gym and swimming pool.  The meeting is scheduled for Monday night, March 4, at 5:30 PM at the Mason City Community School District Board of Education Administrative Center Instructional Support Center.

The project has been rumored for years and now seems to be coming more to the forefront. To the knowledge the NIT newsroom, no costs nor real specifics connected this project have been released to the public by the school district.  The gym might be located between Mohawk Field and the MCHS gym.

This afternoon, NIT made a public information request to the MCCSD (the second recent request – the other involved possible nepotism and shrouded hiring practices by the district, which we will report on soon), asking for “details on the proposed Mason City High School auxiliary gym and swimming pool …  cost, drawings, how it will be paid for, location of gym, reason the gym is ‘needed.'”

NIT will report more detail when available.

Last year, Mason City voters approved 10 years of additional taxes to support the school district. This came before it was revealed that millions of dollars have been mis-spent and/or mis-appropriated by the Mason City School District.  One Mason City citizen and taxpayer said today, “Seems like this is the exact type of behavior that takes place when there is no reporting/watchdog of activities in our school district – now the most notorious in the entire state – and we see how that recently turned out.  Can the MCCSD be trusted to run itself with no one watching it?”

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