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Thursday, May 15, 2008 --- 72 days ago http://www.newstribune.info/homepage/x1867422523/Voters-turn-out-to-reject-bond-
| With only seven of 32 precincts voting yes, the school bond levy failed to pass Tuesday, with uncertified results being 2,958 for and 4,194 against.
“We hoped the children of Mineral County would have received this money,” said Superintendent of Schools Tilden “Skip” Hackworth early Wednesday morning at a packed Mineral County Courthouse. “Now, children in another county will benefit from the money.”
A larger-than-expected turnout and time-consuming tallies by both paper and electronic ballots resulted in early-morning numbers.
These results mark the third time Mineral County residents have voted on a school bond levy in four years.
February’s special election on the school bond levy ended in defeat with 1,701 voting against the levy, 1,558 for the levy — 143 votes from passing.
During the Primary Election in May 2004, more residents were against the passing of the bond than in recent elections, with 2,606 for the bond and 3,590 against — a deficit of 984.
The 2004 election was the first time a school bond levy was voted on since the passage of the last one in 1973, according to Superintendent of Schools Skip Hackworth.
If the bond would have passed, the county school system would have received $9 million dollars from the West Virginia School Building Authority, which was awarded at a special meeting held April 21 in Charleston.
This money was “contingent upon the passage of the school bond election,” Hackworth previous ... |
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