PIERRE, (KCCR) — Governor Kristi Noem has not mention publicly any help for the Douglas School District to build a school ahead of the B-21 Raider bomber’s arrival at Ellsworth Air Force Base. South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds testified this summer before The Select Committee on Legislative Relationships with the base. He’s earmarking 42-million dollars of the 62-million needed for a new school and Douglas is chipping in six-million…
Rounds is hopeful the South Dakota legislature will step up like it did when Ellsworth was almost closed…
Since the base is exempt from paying property taxes, the Douglas District doesn’t get the benefits a normal school district would…
Nearly half a billion dollars in federal construction spending is planned in and around Ellsworth in preparation for the B-21 in the next two to three years.
