The 6.9-mill, $107.8 million bond issue overwhelmingly rejected by Canfield school voters during the primary election is on the Aug. 2 special ballot, but the board of education could decide to pull it.

“There has been no decision made yet,” said Joe Knoll, Canfield superintendent of schools. “The board has taken the necessary steps to put it on the August ballot but hasn’t decided to move ahead yet.”

The board is meeting next Wednesday, and a discussion on keeping the bond issue on the Aug. 2 ballot will occur, he said.

The issue was on Tuesday’s primary election ballot, and 28.22 percent of voters supported it, according to unofficial but final results from the Mahoning County Board of Elections. It lost in all 23 voting precincts in the school district.

In anticipation of the bond issue losing, the Canfield school board took the steps necessary to return it to the Aug. 2 ballot.

The board submitted the issue April 22 to the county board of elections for a second vote in August.

Wednesday was the deadline to file for that special election. The Canfield school district bond issue was the only filing in either Mahoning or Trumbull counties by the deadline.

The district wants to use the $107.8 million to build a new school campus on the 100-acre Red Gate farm property. The district would pay 90.7 percent of the cost with the rest, about $10 million, coming from the state.

The bond issue was for 37 years and would have been used to construct a pre-K to grade 8 building on the farm property about 2.5 miles from the center of Canfield and renovate the existing high school to extend its use for at least 25 years. Of the $107.8 million, the high school renovation would cost about $20 million with the rest for the school campus.

The district plan is to demolish C.H. Campbell Elementary and Canfield Village Middle schools and repurpose Hilltop Elementary School.

The school district wants to swap land for the new campus.

The plan called for the district to get the farm property from the city in exchange for the middle school building, which is on 9.1 acres, as well as all of the parking off of Wadsworth Street and the Canfield Board of Education bus garage.

dskolnick@vindy.com