The Cape Henlopen School District wants to build a new elementary school to replace H.O. Brittingham and Rehoboth Elementary schools in addition to renovating the Lewes School and Milton Elementary school for a total cost of $130 million.
Superintendent Bob Fulton said that it would require a referendum vote in late March.
WBOC reports that the state would cough up 60 percent of the funds but the rest would have to come from local tax payers amounting to $48 million.
Fulton said this would require an average homeowner to pay an extra $74 a year in the fourth year of taxation.
The superintendent told a community meeting in Rehoboth Beach yesterday that over the next 10 years he expects another 1-thousand students.
