Early School Voting Is Light To Average

- - y - An average voter turnout in the Ann Arbor School District but extremely light voting in the out-county districts were reported at 11 a.m. this morning. Voters are deciding the fate of the Ann Arbor School District's three-part, $9.5 million bond issue, along with millage and bonding proposals of the Washtenaw Intermedíate School District to finance a county-wide vocational education facility. By 11 a.m., 1,418 Ann Arbor voters had been to the polls. This is slightly more than the 1,363 voters who had voted by 11 a.m. last Jan. 8 on the school district's $15.5 million bonding issue. Voting in the other nine school districts of the county on the vocational school was reported to be very light this morning. In a sample poll of five school districts, a total of only 329 persons had voted. This figure includes 92 persons from Ypsilanti, 43 from Milan, 58 from Lincoln, 54 from Dexter and 82 from Chelsea. The voting breakdown in the Ann Arbor School District, by precinct, was as follows at 11 a.m.: First Precinct, 120; Second, 183; Third, 157; Fourth, 320; Fifth, 231; Sixth, 185, and Seventh, 222. The Ann Arbor School District is seeking funds for school construction, additions and renovations, construction of school services and administration facilities, and construction of a 20,000-squarefoot addition to the main public library [in Ann Arbor. Proposal I of the bond issue - the school construction portion - totals $7,405,000. Proposal II - the school services and administration building portion - totals $1,325,000. Proposal III - the library addition portion - totals $775,000. All three proposals may be accepted or rejected separately. The Intermedíate School District is asking for millage and bonding authority to construct, equip and opérate a $5 million county-wide, vocational-technical educational facility. Only property owners and their spouses are eligible to vote on the Ann Arbor School Districts three-part proposal. All registered voters who live in the school districts of Ann Arbor, Chelsea, Dexter, Lincoln, Manchester, Milan, Saline, Whitmore Lake, Willow Run or Ypsilanti may vote on Proposition I- ■ the one-mill request- of the Intermedíate School District' s issue. Only property owners in the abovementioned districts may vote on Proposition II of the Intermedíate School District. This proposal would give the district authority to bond for construction of the vocational education facility. The polling places which were listed in yesterday's editions of The News will be open until 8 p.m. today. Information on the school elections may be obtained today until 8 p.m. from the Ann Arbor League of Women Voters by calling 971-4937 or 668-8512.