NARROWSBURG — Voters in the new Sullivan West School District now know what kind of school building they will be voting for come this June.

It will be a 134,000-square-foot building with a 600-seat auditorium, no swimming pool and with an auxiliary gym.

Price tag: $28.8 million. Cost to tax payers for the entire project, including the new building and the renovations to the old buildings: a tax rate increase of one dollar per $1,000 of assessed value.

State aid on the entire project—new and renovated—will be between 83 and 85 percent, according to school officials. They estimate that the percentage of state aid for the new high school alone will be in the high 60’s.

During merger discussion, the overall impression was that 95 percent of the entire building costs would be aided.

"State aid formulas are very complex and difficult to comprehend; people have to understand that," said board member Angela Daley.

Near the end of last year, members of the school district staff developed a "wish list" of the things they thought would make for an excellent educational program. The building committee and the board worked on paring the list down to a viable educational package they thought the public would accept.

In other business, district superintendent Michael Johndrow informed the board that a solution was finally reached regarding the design of the bus entrance. That had to be settled before the rest of the surveyor’s plans could be completed.

"Now, the surveyor can get us moving on the subdivision by the Town of Cochecton Planning Board and the extension of the sewer district," Johndrow said. "Things are happening now."

On May 16, district tax payers will be voting on the new 2000-2001 budget which is estimated to be around $21.2 million, an increase of about two percent for the taxpayers.