THACKERVILLE, OK -- For the second time this year voters in Thackerville are being asked to pass a multi-million dollar school bond. Now school officials are hoping they will get the funding they say they desperately need. Austin Wright has more.

Thackerville Public Schools’ administrators say they are putting the $5 million school bond to a vote on November 10. After taking a good look at why the first bond didn't pass, administrators say they have come up with a new proposal and hope this time will be different.

The bond that failed six months ago totaled over $4 million. According to officials, it was shot down because the tax increase necessary for the bond to pass was not a popular selling point among the community.

This new proposal will bring $1 million more for a total of $5 million, which will pay for a new elementary school and gym.

School administrators say the new proposal will take less out of taxpayers’ pockets-- about three dollars for every hundred dollars of property tax. The bond also has a duration of nine years which is shorter then its predecessor.

Superintendent David Herron says the new proposal is based on the kids’ best interests, but the community’s as well.

"We have gotten more the input from our community, and we've really sit down and thought what is the best thing to do for our kids, as well as our community, because your community grows together," Herron says.

Fourth grade teacher Rhonda Fox is one of the schools senior staff members. Without more room, she says it's hard for her students to grow.

"We hope that they will vote to build a new building, so as they grow their kids will have the room to expand."

Laurie Roper's kids are Thackerville students. She would like to see them get opportunities that she didn't when she attended Thackerville during her school days.

"I went to school here as a child, my father went to school here as a child, my father graduated in 1957. So this building has been here before then. So it's needed, it's definitely needed. It's a big issue."

School officials are looking forward to addressing any questions that the community might have about the new school bond. They are having an open meeting on October 27 before the bond will go to the voters on November 10.