The Columbia Falls School District 6 Board Monday night approved an $84.8 million bond request to completely remodel the high school.

The bond, if approved, would mean an estimated overall tax increase of about $498 a year on a $600,000 home and a $216 rate increase on a $300,000 home for 25 years.

But since the school’s $2.7 million bond to replace the classroom wing roof will be paid for in 2026, the net increase in taxes on the same $600,000 home would be about $388 a year.

The school board decided on a remodel of the building, which opened to students in the fall of 1959, as the option was less expensive than building a new high school.

“That’s a big number,” superintendent Cory Dziowgo said of the bond request. “But I think it gets us everything we need.”

“There’s nothing that ha

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