| Voters approve schools project |
By: JIM HAMMERAND, Staff Writer
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Posted: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 1:45 pm
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LONSDALE — Montgomery-Lonsdale School District voters approved a $29.7 million school renovation and construction referendum Tuesday.
Voters in both cities supported the measure by healthy margins, according to district vote totals.
Of the 1,808 voters, 61 percent cast ballots for the project. Turnout and support in Montgomery, at 1,142 voters and 64 percent support, was higher than Lonsdale’s 666 voters, 56 percent of whom voted yes.
The district held the special election after being made eligible for low-interest bonding through the federal stimulus program in August. The project would tear down old sections of the district’s aging high school in Montgomery, renovate it for younger students and expand West Elementary into a high school.
“We were very happy that both communities supported the referendum,” Superintendent Corey Lunn said. “We really wanted to avoid a situation where one community voted it down and the other passed it.”
Lunn expects the School Board to award contracts to designers and builders by the end of January and break ground on the project early next year.
Lonsdale
Yes = 371 (56 percent)
No = 295 (44 percent)
Total = 666
Montgomery
Yes = 735 (64 percent)
No = 407 (36 percent)
Total = 1142
Total
Yes = 1106 (61 percent)
No = 702 (39 percent)
Total = 1808
— Jim Hammerand covers the city. He can be reached at jhammerand@lonsdalenewsreview.com or 744-2551. |
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