An issue the Clinton Board of Education thought was laid to rest last year has resurfaced and is looking like a reality very quickly.

In October of last year, the Clinton Board of Education was approached by the City of Clinton to conduct a traffic study at the site of their new elementary school on Illini Drive. The Board of Education declined to do a study. Superintendent of Clinton Schools, Dr. Jeff Holmes says this came about in the district seeking permits from the City, and the traffic study is a pre-requisite to one of those permits.

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Dr. Holmes says he sympathizes with the city's concerns. He does not want this to become a roadblock in their goal of getting a new school built.

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The district last year looked into the traffic study, and bids came back close to $6-thousand. Dr. Holmes says this is a multi-million dollar project, and getting worked up over a $6-thousand cost is not worth it to stop the project's progress.

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Last year the Board rejected the traffic study because they felt it was unnecessary to establish the fact traffic will be congested, something they were and are fully aware of currently.

The City encouraged the Board to bring a proposal to them in financing the study, something initially the Board was planning on having to finance themselves.