You folks are forgetting something.........the old money in Hartselle DO NOT WANT THE TOWN TO GROW.

We want Hartselle to grow. but we do not need our taxes to go up, Why can"t they just add on to what they got if they need more room, Why build a new school when they can do this?

The reasoning for building the new high school is b/c hartselle received approx 22.5 mil. from Gov. Riley for use of building a new high school. The current facility is fading fast and is costing $$$ to repair the existing structure. Also as the city grows ever so slightly over the past 5-10 years, that means more students and in turn means more room for study as well as parking is needed. However there is no room for addition at the current residence. Therefore a new high school is and has been desperatly needed for years. If you are so upset with the taxes going up 1 cent then maybe you need to reconsider how you spent some of your income, b/c 1 cent is not going to kill anybody. If you drive to decatur, madison, or cullman to shop, you are spending roughly $5 in gas already to go the distance so its gonna be the same.

Amen David. My kids graduated from there 8 years ago and needed repair then, I can only imagine what it must need now.

Glad my kids don't go to Hartselle. Wouldn't wont them to travel on Hwy 36 on dead mans curve. Their is a reason its called that.

Don't you realize they are still going to use the old high school. They are only looking at adding space for 300 more students. If you are going to build it because we need the space then build it bigger than that. If the old building is so bad WHY are they going to keep using it. The money should be used for REPAIRS. No one has answered WHERE the money will come from to run the new building that will be added to the system. "THEY" are SAVING jobs by not allowing subs for non certified staff. Just OVERWORKING the staff that is there working 1-2 or 3 short. Yet we can support a adding a new building which will have to have MORE staff added. I have no problem with the one cent tax but SOMEONE is not telling the whole truth. Seems to me the system is not as BROKE as they want us to believe. Of course their are some at central with paper pushing jobs that should go to the house.

They can add on to the school by adding up, more stories, that would save money, also repairs, would be cheaper than building a new school, thay cold take the money and do that, it would save money

Adding more "stories"? Really?

This obviously isn't the answer. It wouldn't be feasible much less safe to add on stories to a school that is as old as Hartselle High School.

"Repairs" may be the easiest, cheapest answer for the short-term, but in the long-term building a new high school will be the most frugal answer.

I thought Hartselle has always prided itself on having the best school system in the state. What has happened? If this were a ballfield, everyone would support it.