Bond elections

School districts and other local governments that fail to pass a tax would have to wait a year before asking voters again, under a bill that cleared a state House committee Friday on a party-line vote.

The West Kern, Calif., Community College District is going to seek voter approval for a bond on the June 5 ballot, but it has scaled back the amount it will ask for.

Voters denied a bond Tuesday that would have paid for school renovations and a new workforce readiness center for Chester County students.

For the second consecutive voting cycle, Waxahachie residents will decide the fate of a proposed bond to address population growth.

Voters sided with school officials trying to keep up with growth in north Spokane and agreed gave the Mead School District another $114 million for a new middle school, elementary school and football stadium.

Pullman voters approved two bond measures yesterday evening that will result in a new City Hall among other things.

It's disappointment again for Battle Ground Public Schools, Wash., where not enough voters supported a $224.9 million school bond.

Fourteen San Angelo ISD campuses are targeted for upgrades and repairs if a nearly $149 million bond is passed by voters in May.

Laredo ISD trustees decided Thursday night to float a $150 million bond that would pay for a new Cigarroa Middle School.

In King County alone, 16 school districts are asking voters in this month's special election to approve levy measures that would generate more than $1billion in revenue over four years, starting in 2019.

A $27 million bond issue would pay to build, furnish and equip an elementary school building that would replace the district's two older ones.

Las Cruces Public Schools voters passed a $50 million bond measure with a wide margin Tuesday.

An $8.6 million bond issue to expand and upgrade Janesville Consolidated School was approved Tuesday by just over 62% of voters.

School districts shouldn't be able to keep going back to voters after a bond or levy measure fails at the polls, Rep. Heather Scott told a House committee on Thursday.

The Ardmore City Schools board of education voted to hold a special election for a bond issue to fund several construction projects.

The second time was the charm for the Wessington Springs School Board.

Northeastern Local Schools will go back on the ballot May 8 to ask voters to approve new buildings that will cost more than $117 million.

A survey revealed voters had concerns about the district's debt, the impact on property taxes and a lack of information and transparency.

It only took a few seconds for members of the Pauls Valley Board of Education to give their official blessing earlier this week to setting a spring date for the next local school bond election.

The city's bond lawyer was not at the meeting and the board wasn't given a fiscal note saying how much the borrowing would actually cost.