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15,000 voters — 28 percent of the
district's registered voters and
3,500 more than voted in last
year's bond election.
On the first proposal, 11,184
voted for the bond, 4,563 voted
against. On the swimming pool
proposal, 8,347 were for it, 7,321
against.
District spokesperson Lois
Lange said the election had the
largest turnout of any bond elec-
tion so far.
"I think we are at a point in our
crowding situation where the re-
sults of the crowding are evident
to everyone. Therefore, the whole
issue got more attention from
more people. The other bond
votes were proactive in nature.
We wanted to resolve the prob-
lem before we had negative con-
sequences," she said.
District officials sat down this
week with an architect and con-
struction manager to hammer
out a construction schedule for
the new buildings. Operations di-
rector Chuck Kissaw said an el-
ementary school at 13 Mile Road
and Meadowbrook will be the
first building completed. If con-
struction rims according to sched-'
ule, all the projects should be
completed within 3 1/2 years, he
said. ❑
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one way or another. Not every-
one wanted to devote his life to it,
but people offered to put up signs
and make phone calls and pass
out leaflets," Mr. Tukel said. Reg-
istered voters got at least two
phone calls before the election
from volunteers, who also made
sure that people who needed ab-
sentee ballots got them.
They also contacted their cler-
gymen, asking them to inform
their congregants about the is-
sue, and took out ads in local
newspapers urging a "yes" vote
on both proposals.
"The volunteers came to us, in
large part, because people who'd
been in the district and knew how
important this issue was realized
the problems that required a
bond in previous years only got
worse," Mr. Tukel said. Enroll-
ment in the district has grown by
close to 600 students per year
since 1989, and a lease of one el-
ementary school is up in 1999,
which would leave another 600
pupils without classrooms.
Had the first proposal failed,
the school board would have im-
plemented double-shift school-
days in which some students
would start their day at 5:30 a.m.
and others at 1 p.m.
Saturday's election drew over
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