Illustration Courtesy James W. Buckley and Associates / In this site sketch by Buckley & Associates, the planned new Southeast Bulloch High School campus is the green portion on the righthand side. The main building is shown in red, now reduced to 2,000-student capacity with 111 classrooms. White rectangles at the end of each classroom wing are areas for potential future expansion. The existing SEB High and SEB Middle schools are the pink buildings in the gray area to the left. The Bulloch County School District sold bonds with a face value of $50.32 million Thursday morning, thus borrowing that amount at an effective 2.16% annual interest rate to be repaid in installments over three years. This will partially finance a new, 2,000-student Southeast Bulloch High School projected to cost as much as $165 million. Construction is slated to begin this summer. At the Board of Education’s meeting Thursday evening, the members, by a single motion and unanimous 8-0 vote, approved four legal documents related to the bond sale. Also, by a separate 8-0 vote at the end of the meeting, they OK’d an intergovernmental agreement with the city of Brooklet to connect the new school and the two existi

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