 Construction of the new all fourth and fifth grade Jean Dillon Elementary School cleared another hurdle during last night's Bemidji City Council meeting. The city of Bemidji and Beltrami County officials signed off on a memorandum of understanding that outlines who pays what to extend municipal utilities to the new school. The city of Bemidji will pay no more than $508,000 to build the new water and sewer lines. The city and school district will share the cost to extend the lines west from Adams Avenue all the way to the new school. To keep the school district's project on track, knowing that utilities need to be installed at some point, regardless of the roads, we decided to work with the school to hammer out the costs and the cost sharing for the utilities. And so that's what we approved tonight at the City Council meeting. And the county and the school as well are participating in the review of all of this and will share in the approvals of that as well. The school district hopes to have the new Jean Dillon Elementary School ready for the 2018-19 school year. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.