A group of Dubuque School District voters who have organized the Vote No campaign opposed to the $70 million dollar referendum are asking the Dubuque Community School Board to provide a cost estimate of what it would be to renovate Washington Middle School.
Vote No campaign leader Paul Kern says they believe remodeling the building would come at a much smaller price tag and cost to tax payers than the estimated nearly $122-million dollars to tear down Washington and build a new facility combining Washington and Jefferson.
Kern cites the recent multi-phase renovation of Dubuque Senior High as an example which cost approximately 64-million dollars and is also a building over 100 years old.
