Bond elections

Walla Walla Public Schools' Community Task Force has again launched an online survey to gather public opinion of the two school bond options.

The process of collecting signatures on a petition in favor of building a new Ames High School, and expanding three district elementary schools, appears to be in good shape.

Mike Kuhle is publicly supporting the upcoming District 518 bond referendum, but he's quick to point out that he's doing so as an individual and not speaking for the city.

Voters are being asked to approve construction bonds that would create a new high school in the Central Valley School District and provide more classrooms to keep up with growth north of Spokane in Mead.

As soon as April, residents of the Central Lee School District may decide on whether to pass a general obligation bond issue of $9.8 million to pay for facility renovations.

Vallejo school district trustees will review survey results regarding the community's interest in supporting a school bond for the upcoming election.

The Anderson Community Schools Board of Trustees on Tuesday voted in favor of starting the process toward two May 8 bond referendums by unanimously approving four resolutions.

Santa Fe Public Schools is launching a campaign to win voter approval for the renewal of a 2-mill property tax levy to pay for things the average person often doesn't see in schools.

The Alamance-Burlington Board of Education entered their Tuesday, Jan. 9 work session expecting to be wowed by the bells and whistles of the proposed $150 million bond.

Wake County voters will likely have to wait until November, instead of May, to decide the fate of a bond for new school construction.

The Alexandria Community Schools Board of Trustees on Monday voted to move forward with a May 8 bond referendum by unanimously approving three resolutions.

Forty hours of analysis, 18 committee members, 16 months of 14 meetings and 13 separate studies were boiled down into a 90-minute presentation on current Walla Walla school building needs Tuesday night.

Davidson County Board of Commissioners voted last week to assemble a package of survey questions regarding a possible bond referendum.

A new school for third- through fifth-graders would be built if Perkins-Tryon Public Schools voters approve two bonds totaling $16.5 million next February.

Officials with Alexandria Community Schools during a preliminary determination hearing on Monday announced hopes taxpayers will approve a $19.3 million facilities bond payable over 19 years.

It took just one day for the North Huron Board of Education to go back to the voters.

The California Chamber of Commerce supports a developing $8.9 billion bond proposal as well as a $4 billion measure that is already on the June ballot.

Voters in the Hatton School District resoundingly approved a bond referendum to build a $6.3 million addition to the school in a special election Tuesday.

The Clarkston School District won't ask voters to reconsider its recently failed construction bond in February.

Pullman City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to rerun two bonds from the Nov. 7 ballot in a special election in February.