The Hood River County School District Board and Superintendent Dan Goldman have set their goals for the 2016-17 school year, and many of them revolve around the recently passed bond measure that includes construction of a new May Street Elementary and a science and technology addition at Wy’east Middle School.  Goldman says the next year will be dominated by planning, with very few visible construction projects.  He noted many of the   Goldman adds one of the major steps the district is undertaking is applying to Standard and Poor’s to increase the district’s bond rating from A-plus to AA-minus, which would save the district millions of dollars in interest payments.  The process to select an architectural firm to handle design of the various construction projects.