A new Dutch Fork Elementary School, district-wide security upgrades, and digital AI lab top the list of projects the public will see.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Over 40,000 Lexington-Richland Five School District residents voted “Yes” to support a bond referendum.
On Friday, Superintendent Dr. Akil Ross laid out exactly how the district will use the nearly $240 million from those bonds.
“Safety and security is going to be our number one, out-the-door project. Surveillance and monitoring is going to be the key,” Ross said.
The superintendent said the district will spend $5.1 million beefing up security at schools across the district. Plans call for new surveillance cameras and redesigned vestibules at some school entrances.
The most ambitious project included in the bond plan is a brand-new Dutch Fork Elementary School.
“(The current) school is going to be tightly impacted by the broadening of Broad River Road,” Ross said. “They have a four-lane road going …