Bond Project Floor Plans
Harrisonville Elementary School
McEowen Elementary School
Harrisonville Middle School
Harrisonville High School

Bond Summary & Project Timeline
The Harrisonville Cass R-IX School District kicked off approximately $12 million in bond projects this fall. The projects were made possible through patron support of a bond issue in April.

The For All Our Kids bond projects include additions and program expansion at all district facilities.

Additional classroom space will be added at each building to accommodate the district's special education students. Currently the district transports some special education students out of district for services at a cost of about $1 million. Once the additions are complete, most students will be able to go to school in their home district. Due to their specialized needs, a few students will continue at their current out-of-district school.

Projects at Harrisonville High School include the expansion of the band and choir rooms, expansion and renovation of the Family and Consumer Science room, renovation of the cafeteria, and the addition of classrooms for business, journalism, and technology. These additions will ensure adequate space for all programs.

With the addition of business classrooms at HHS, the Cass Career Center which currently houses these classes will gain space which can be used for new programs such as pre-engineering.

Harrisonville Elementary School will gain additional classrooms so that all third grade students can attend class at the school. Currently two third grade classrooms are housed at McEowen Elementary School.

A gymnasium will also be added to Harrisonville Elementary. Currently Physical Education classes cannot take place for 135 minutes each day because the multi-purpose room where they take place is used for lunch.

The same situation takes place at McEowen Elementary, where the gymnasium is used as a cafeteria. Therefore, McEowen will be adding a cafeteria as part of the bond projects.
At both elementary schools, the additions will enable physical education classes to be scheduled for longer blocks of time and will provide extra space for grade-level activities, assemblies, and indoor recess.

At Harrisonville Middle School, a classroom to house the district's gifted program will be added.

The Early Childhood Center will gain additional space for special education through the renovation of the current gifted education classroom. The Parents As Teachers program will move to the newly renovated space allowing its current space to be used to expand special education areas at the Early Childhood Center.

Construction will be taking place throughout the school year with completion of all projects set for next fall.

The first projects to be completed will be the expansion of the band and choir rooms at HHS which will be completed soon after winter break.

Projects in which construction will occur within the school will not begin until the end of the 2007-08 school year.

All bond projects were developed through a series of community forums and a telephone survey conducted last year. The top priorities created through this process were:

1. Expanding current facilities to allow for all special education students to be served in Harrisonville,
2. Buying land now for future sites,
3. Expanding Harrisonville High school to accommodate band, choir, family and consumer science, health and to allow Cass Career Center classes to move to the high school, and,
4. Expanding classroom and multi-purpose space at the existing elementary schools.

The bond projects address three of these priorities.

The other priority has already been addressed by the Board of Education. In May, the Board purchased 30+ acres of land in the Jones Ranch subdivision as a future school site. The funds used to purchase this land came from the district's general fund and did not come from the bond issue. Therefore all bond monies approved by voters will be used to fund building projects.

The fifth priority established by district patrons during last year's phone survey and community forums was the building of a new early childhood center. However, once the bond projects were prioritized and priced, administrators were unable to include the early childhood center. The district plans to come back to voters with a proposal for this facility as soon as its bonding capacity is rebuilt to enable another no tax increase measure.

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