Administrators think things are looking up at historic Harrisburg High School.
Voters approved a $15 million bond issue earlier this month, to be paid off with sales tax funds. The money will be used to renovate portions of the school, some of which are over 110 years old.
Harrisburg High School Principal Karen Crank says they've also been creative in finding alternative funding sources as state funding dwindles.
She says when they recently signed a 10-year contract with Pepsi Mid-America, they leveraged a deal for the company to pay the school a $7,500 yearly stipend to update technology needs.
"While we're updating each classroom with that money, so we don't use the sales tax money, we will tap into that Pepsi money for interactive white boards and those kinds of things in the classrooms."
While the oldest building on the high school campus was built in 1903, additions were made in the 1920's and again in the 1950's.
Crank says the money will be used to reconstruct the building housing Bonnell Gymnasium, as well as renovations to the cafeteria and science labs. Shesays work could begin late this summer on the improvements approved by the voters on April 7th.
