New school may push back city road work - KTIV News 4 Sioux City IA: News, Weather and Sports

The City of Sioux City and the Community School District have partnered on more than a dozen school projects, but lately there have been some sticking points.

The district was forced to shelve a plan to replace Bryant Elementary when they failed to get the city council's support to put it in Leif Erikson Park.

With Bryant on the back-burner, replacement of Washington Elementary moved up.

The project includes widening the streets around the school.

To do that the city will have to push other construction projects back, like upgrades to Clifton Street, Military Road, and West 7th.

"That's just not fair to those neighborhoods that were promised their projects that now will get bumped," said Mayor Bob Scott.

"I appreciate and realize what you're saying, and unfortunately the Washington School project moved up on us by a couple of years," said the school district's attorney Dan Moore.

The estimated cost of the city's portion of the project is just under half a million dollars.

Moore offered to have the school district pay for the work up front, and have the city pay them back.

However, the school board hasn't signed off on the idea.