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School Bonding Election Put Off

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9
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May
Year
1968
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Voters will not be 'asked to make a decisión on a $9.4 milIlion school bonding proposal until at least Sept. 14. The Board of Education agreed to table a request that bonding be added to the June 10 school board ballot in order to concéntrate on passage of the "more crucial" 11.66-mill proposal which wül face voters on that day. Sept. 14 is the earliest possible date for another school election after June 10. The motion to table passed 7 to 2, with Trustees Harold J. Lockett and Paul H. Johnson casting the only "no" votes. "The question is what does a few months delay mean to a child in the crucial years of junior or senior high school? I think it is important to stand forthrightly for the children in thjs instance and not bend on strategy," Lockett said. Johnson said he thought the bonding proposal "put us in the win column." The school board could use a victory for a change, he said. Trustee Joseph R. Julin asked that the motion be tabled, stating: "I feel that the millage is more important. Adding the bonding vote can only detract f rom it." While agreeing with this, Supt. W. Scott Westerman Jr. said that without support for the building program, "the system will be in nearly the same bad situation by 1970-71 as it is in today with a 26 per cent overenrollment at the secondary school level." "By September, hopefully the building trades strikes will be settled and we will have an even better idea where we stand with construction costs," Vice President Robert E. Doerr commented. "We can only hope that a three-month delay will not be too destructive to the students."

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