Gov. touts interest-free bonds at Mo. school

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

TRENTON, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon is touting a north-central Missouri school district as one making good use of interest-free bonds from the state for taxpayer-saving improvements. Nixon on Tuesday visited the Trenton School District to detail the work being funded by $1.6 million in bonds the district received earlier this year from $162 million in available bonds he announced at the time. Nixon says the bonds are upgrading and expanding school sites, creating jobs and, in Trenton's case, saving district taxpayers roughly $800,000. The governor is to make a similar appearance today at Truman High School in Independence, Mo.

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