(Spencer)– Voters in the Spencer school district have narrowly approved a four million dollar bond issue for a new Middle School.
The measure needed 60 percent voter approval for passage. It received 61.87 percent. 3,795 votes were cast in Tuesday’s election: 2,348 were in favor while 1,447 against.
The project has a total cost of 11 and-a-half million dollars. The school’s local option sales tax will cover 6.8 million and the city’s local option sales tax and the district’s PPEL Fund will cover the remaining 700-thousand dollars.
It was the fourth time voters in the Spencer school district had voted on a Middle School bond issue.
About 46 percent of the eligible voters in the Spencer School District turned out in Tuesday’s special election.
