Don’t count your chickens…
It should be noted that, in spite of Tuesday night’s celebration by bond issue supporters, the proposal’s success is not guaranteed.
The bond issue passed by 223 votes based on Tuesday night’s count, but provisional ballots have yet to be counted. According to Finney County Clerk Elsa Ulrich, the county has 259 provisional ballots from those voting in the county clerk’s office and 87 from the polls. Some of each are from Holcomb or the small portions of the county in other school districts, so they wouldn’t affect the bond issue. Still, there’s the small chance it would be defeated by those votes. More info here.
Canvassing is on Monday, so results will be finalized then.
I’ll continue this blog at least that long, and will tie up some loose ends regarding fallout from the results. Then, assuming provisional ballots don’t kill the thing, stay tuned in the Telegram and online for updates on the long process of constructing a new Garden City High School, converting GCHS to a middle school, converting Abe Hubert Middle School to an elementary school and expanding Garfield Elementary School into an early childhood center.
Expected high school opening date: August 2012
The propoganda obviously worked. Nothing was said to the public about the additional 800,000 – 1,000,000 dollars that will be needed annually for maintenance and upkeep of the new facilities. Where is that going to come from?? More taxes and mill levies forced on the homeowners and business owners here in Garden City. What about the members of the community who are being forced into this without being allowed to vote on the issue. There are some people who live outside the city limits here that were not allowed to vote but will still have to pay the taxes.
Then there is the issue of the traffic situation. 83 bypass. Trucks+teen+drivers+traffic congestion = disaster. I guess a 20mph speed zone on the bypass. Maybe more road construction and a bypass of the bypass will work.
Real foresight in this planning.