Kingfisher’s board of education is expected to call for a bond election at a special meeting Monday, one that would allow for the construction of a new middle school.

The meeting is scheduled at 7 p.m. at the Board of Education Building.

The brief agenda calls for action on a resolution calling for the election as well as employing Stephen H. McDonald & Associates as a financial consultant.

Should the action be approved, an election will be held in September.

The proposed one-story building will house seventh and eighth grade students and would be constructed south of the APB in the current parking lot area.

Preliminary plans would also have a parking lot constructed west of the high school to help make up for lost spaces on the new site.

Superintendent Jason Sternberger and board members have held several meetings with architects, principals, teachers, other staff and community members in a number of open meetings.

Sternberger also welcomed any and all input from the community in his office each week.

Those meetings explored everything from renovating current structures on the district’s campuses to possible new construction. Eventually, new construction was decided as the solution. The meetings also produced the current site of the proposed building and preliminary plans.

If the new building is approved, it will allow the district to reconfigure classes in the other buildings.

Most likely, the current middle school would go from housing fifth-eighth grades to having fourth, fifth and sixth grades.

The current Heritage School, now home to third and fourth graders, would have second and third graders.

Pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first grade students would remain at Gilmour Elementary.

Sternberger and board members have also addressed the possibility of moving administrative offices into freed up space at Gilmour.

Financial figures will be revealed at the special meeting. However, with current obligation bonds about to come off the tax rolls, a new bond issue would have little to no effect on taxpayers, Sternberger said.

To pass, a bond issue needs a super-majority, or 60 percent, of “yes” votes.