Missouri lawmakers want to build school storm shelters

March 17, 2014
The storm shelters would be built at the district’s elementary schools as part of the Carthage 2020 program.

Missouri lawmakers proposed legislation last week that would enable the Carthage School District in Missouri to build storm shelters with funds from its budget surplus. The storm shelters would be built at the district’s elementary schools as part of the Carthage 2020 program, in which the community came up with a $43 million worth of improvements to be made to area schools, the Joplin Globe reported

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