(Spirit Lake)– Voters in the city of Spirit Lake head to the polls this coming Tuesday (March 5th) to decide the fate of a $1.35 million dollar bond issue for a new city hall. It would be built on the same site as the existing structure. Offices would be temporarily relocated during construction to the former Spirit Lake schools Administrative Office building on 20th Street.
City Administrator Mark Stevens says this proposal is a scaled down version of an earlier one that failed…(click here for comment.) “That’s less than we did in 2011, in that referendum. The council has scaled back the project so it’s a smaller building than we initially proposed, but it’s bigger than what we have now. So it will meet our space needs that we have today and in the immediate future and provide much better space to conduct public business.”
City officials say it would not result in an increase in property taxes as local option sales tax revenue and budget reserves would be used to pay off the bonds.
Polls will be open Tuesday (March 5th) from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the Dickinson County Community Building. Absentee voting is currently underway at the Dickinson County Auditor’s Office at the courthouse.
The measure needs approval from 60 percent of those who vote in the referendum in order to pass.
