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three years. In 1993, West
Bloomfield School District voters
approved a $26-million bond for
the construction of Gretchko El-
ementary School and addition-
al computers and technology
throughout the district.
Mr. Wasko doesn't want to
think about the possibility of a

defeat on Oct. 7. "We are plan-
ning on it passing," he. said.
"The strategy in West Bloom-
field — and it's been successful
so far -- is not to present a worst-
case scenario. Instead, our strat-
egy has been to outline ,the
projects we think are necessary
and allow the community to de-
cide." O

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A cadre of dedicated volunteers fueled the passage
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Voters streamed to the polls in Walled Lake last Saturday.

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undreds of volunteers
spoke at PTA meetings and
phoned their clergymen,
newspaper editorial
boards, friends and neighbors.
They knocked on doors, hung
signs, addressed newsletters and
passed out leaflets.
And while many residents liv-
ing in the Walled Lake Consoli-
dated School District believe the
time was ripe for new schools, vot-
ers might not have approved a
$108-million bond issue to build
them were it not for a tireless
grassroots effort.
Last Saturday, a record num-
ber of voters overwhelmingly ap-
proved two bond proposals,
including the one to build an ele-
mentary school and two middle
schools and the other to construct
a $6-million community swim-
ming pool at Walled Lake Cen-
tral High School.
It was the fourth time in two
years that the district asked vot-
ers to approve bond sales for the
construction of new schools. In
February 1995, voters were asked
to approve $90.5 million to con-
struct schools, athletic fields and
classroom additions and another
$25.4 million to renovate old
school buildings, build a pool and
construct a gym and performing
arts center.

"I'm gratified that it passed,
and I'm gratified at the margin of
victory," said Dan Tukel of Citi-
zens for Walled Lake Schools.
"That indicates clearly we
reached a lot of people, as I
thought would happen if we got
the information to them."
Citizens for Walled Lake
Schools has been around for some
20 years, working on millage and
bond campaigns. But after the
last bond proposal narrowly failed
in February 1995, the group re-
doubled its efforts, Mr. Tukel said.
"We learned a lot in terms of
organizing and getting more vol-
unteers to help, and the refine-
ments of that basic process over
time taught us what to do and
how to reach more people. We had
tremendous support from literal-
ly hundreds of volunteers who
called neighbors and knocked on
doors," he said.
A pyramid of volunteers, start-
ing with a steering committee, or-
ganized themselves into zones, so
that everybody would be respon-
sible for a different part of the dis-
trict. Other volunteers were
charged with recruiting volun-
teers to make phone calls.
"We tried to work it so that no-
body had to make more than 25
calls. It wasn't hard finding peo-
ple who wanted to get involved in