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The 2012 bond will direct about $20 per student per year to provide student uniforms & equipment.
Replace the uniforms for students in the various choirs, band, and orchestra
Replace various student instruments
Provide needed risers, cabinets, dollies, and other performing arts equipment
System upgrades for the Fine Arts Center
Replace uniforms and equipment for athletics
PERFORMING ARTS:
Vocal & Instrumental Music, Drama
Bartlesville has been renowned for years for its outstanding performing arts, both as a community as well as throughout its public schools. The band, choir, orchestra, and drama programs annually rack up awards testifying to the artistic excellence engendered in their students. Over time the uniforms and instruments for vocal and instrumental music inevitably wear out with use and need to be replaced. The General Fund is entirely inadequate for these large-scale expenses, especially in light of millions of dollars in state funding cuts over the past few years.
The 2012 bond issue will, over its seven-year-life, allow for the various uniforms and instruments to be replaced and upgraded and provide associated equipment for the performing arts.
The Fine Arts Center at the senior high continues to impress visitors to the district. The 2012 bond issue will provide some needed improvements to its lighting and sound system and improve its computer/video projection.
ATHLETICS
The athletics program involves hundreds of students and plays a crucial role in school spirit, student morale and retention, and community involvement. Students in the BPS athletics programs often earn State Academic Championships, illustrating the link between student achievement and involvement in extracurricular activities.
Over time the uniforms and equipment inevitably wear out under heavy use and need to be replaced. The 2012 bond will provide annual funding to refresh athletics uniforms and equipment, ensuring the teams have the essentials for competition.
Severe cuts in state school funding in recent years is driving the district to seek bond funding for these expenses to avoid cuts in important extracurricular programs.
EXAMPLES OF PERFORMING ARTS ITEMS
Uniforms for Vocal & Instrumental Music
Instruments, e.g. piano, basses, cellos, tubas, euphoniums, marching baritones, gongs, oboes, saxophones, bassoons, bass clarinets, contra alto clarinets, English horns, flutes, xylophones, and drums
Cabinets
Dollies
Chairs
Lighting Equipment
Theatrical Top Hats
Theatrical Barn Doors
Clamps
Music Software
Two-Way Radios (Marching Band)
Music Stands
Upgrade Fine Arts Center lighting, sound, & projection systems
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