To date, WOPS has reported 510 cases among its student body.
Holland Christian had no new cases reported over the weekend, according to it’s dashboard update Monday. The number of active cases dropped to four students. The cumulative case count remains 121 students and 25 staff members.
Hope College reported just one new case of COVID-19 for the week of May 3 to May 9, which was exam week. The college administered 945 tests with just one positive, resulting in a 0.1 percent positive rate last week.
For the semester as a whole, Hope reported 339 student positives among 16,097 tests for a positive rate of 2.1 percent.
Grand Valley State University reported 40 active cases in an update Monday. Of those, 20 were students living off campus in Ottawa County and 11 living off campus in Kent County. The seven-day average for new cases per day in the GVSU community was down to 4.71 per day.
Holland voters approve $74.6 million school bond
Updated 12:21 AM;
Today 9:53 PM
Holland Public Schools requested a $74 million bond in the May 4, 2021 election. (MLive file photo)Cory Morse | MLive.com
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HOLLAND, MI – Holland Public Schools will be able to make improvements across the district, including major renovations to its elementary schools, thanks to a $74.6 million bond proposal approved by voters Tuesday, May 4.
The bond passed in a 3,534 to 1,282 vote, according to unofficial election results from the Ottawa County Clerk’s office. The funds will be used to complete several construction projects, make health and safety improvements and upgrade instructional technology.
Sentinel Staff
HOLLAND There were only a handful of measures on the local ballots for the Tuesday, May 4, election, but they were significant nonetheless.
Voters in the area had five tax proposals to voice their opinion on, including four for local schools, and all five passed based on unofficial results posted by Ottawa County Tuesday night.
All precincts in the county were fully reported by 9:24 p.m.
Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck said it was a quiet day in terms of in-person voting, but there were a number of absentee ballots sent in ahead of election day. It s been a fairly quiet day, we re seeing in the precincts, because of the number of absentee ballots,” he said. “We ve had about a little over 10 percent turnout already, as of this morning with our absentee numbers before anyone ever walked into a precinct.
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Holland schools requests $74M bond on May 4 ballot to renovate elementary schools, improve tech
Updated Apr 14, 2021;
Posted Apr 14, 2021
Jefferson Elementary School, pictured in this MLive file photo, would see $6 million in renovations through a $74 million bond proposal that Holland Public Schools is requesting on the May 4 ballot. (MLive file photo)
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HOLLAND, MI – When Holland Public Schools identified $140 million of school renovations in the district’s 2009 master plan, Superintendent Brian Davis couldn’t imagine asking taxpayers to pay for it all amid the ongoing recession.
So the district cut that amount in half, instead only asking taxpayers for $73 million to fund the most immediate needs, which was paid for through a bond proposal approved by voters in the May 2010 election.