The bond amount is too much

• Current Provo City and School District bond debt is about $228m. This $245,000,000.00 bond would double our current debt.

• Provo High School was completed in 2018 with a total cost of $79 million. Provo School District is asking for $145 million for a Timpview rebuild--twice as much!

• The school district chose the most expensive option for Timpview High School

• By building Dixon on undeveloped land, the school district's taxpayers will be paying for millions of dollars of infrastructure that private developers would pay for if they build around the area first

• Find out how much you would pay here.

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The bond is poorly planned

• In 2014, the school board signified they would not bond again for ten years

• Provo School District has decided to remove Dixon Middle from the poorest area of our city with residents who depend on nearby services. This bond simultaneously gives the richest area of our city a brand new school (at nearly twice the price of Provo High) and takes one out of the poorest area.

• There is no firm plan on what to do with the historic 1931 Dixon Middle building nor any money to renovate it. It could sit vacant and rot until another organization saves it like Maeser Elementary.

• Construction costs are at an all-time high, in part due to a significant construction demand. Prices could potentially decrease in an economic recession.

• The land Timpview High School is on continues to shift yet Provo School District has chosen to rebuild on the same site. The former Provo High School building--without shifting land--could have served as a great Timpview High School but it was shortsightedly sold to BYU.

• Provo School District purchased the Footprinter Park site without knowing that Provo City's plan to provide water and sewer infrastructure to it would not come for another seven years. Without a shift of Provo City plans, a west Provo Dixon would be completed four years later than rebuilding on-site. 

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The School Board didn't listen

• The school board held dozens of public meetings inviting the public to comment on their proposal. Concerns went in one ear and out the other; as problems with the bond have come to light, the district has changed nothing with its proposal.

• Junior Bounous donated land to Provo City to build the 10-acre Timp-Kiwanis Bounous park and was promised that it would remain a park. With the Timpview rebuild, Provo School District purchased that park as part of building a new Timpview. The promise to Mr. Bounous was be and the neighborhood will lose its park.

• Nearly 1,000 people signed a petition to keep Dixon Middle school on-site. A group of activists organized a campaign to show the school board the importance of leaving Dixon Middle where it is and rebuilding on-site. They showed up at countless meetings where they were told their voice would be heard. In the end, none of the seven board members voted to keep it on-site.