Seymour Community Schools officials are planning to borrow another $2 million this year to continue improving school buildings and facilities.

This time around, the money will go to pay for interior renovation work at Margaret R. Brown Elementary School and site improvements at Seymour High School’s football stadium.

School board trustees have not yet approved the plan, which was presented by Superintendent Rob Hooker last week. It will be an item of discussion and up for a possible vote at the next school board meeting Thursday.

Both projects are considered second phases and would begin in 2016, Hooker said.

The first phase at Brown included a $2 million addition of four kindergarten classrooms. That project is wrapping up, and teachers have been moving into the new classrooms this summer for the start of the school year Aug. 10.

Phase 2 at Brown will cost $1 million and include the addition of new restrooms and renovations of the media center, the old kindergarten classrooms and other spaces in the building.

At Seymour High School, $2 million is being used to create soccer fields on the school’s campus between the softball and baseball diamonds and to help improve stormwater drainage issues in the area.

The bids for that work recently came in over budget, and the project has been delayed two months but should still be completed in time for the 2016 fall season, Hooker said.

If approved, the second phase of the SHS site improvements will include installing a turf field at the football stadium. That work is expected to cost around $1 million.

The funding for the projects will come from a general obligation bond issue, Hooker said.

Along with the soccer fields, another $1.5 million is being spent for the addition of a new media center and some interior renovation work at the district’s smallest school, Cortland Elementary.

That project is expected to go out to bid later this year.

The school corporation completed a $1.5 million building addition project at Emerson in late 2013.

Besides improving the schools, the construction projects also help keep the school district’s tax rate from going up and down, Hooker said.

“The general obligation bond will again allow us to keep our tax rate stable,” he said.

It also will put the corporation in a better position for a bigger, more costly project in the future, such as a major renovation, addition or building of a new school, he said.