Voters in the Mid Buchanan School District approved a $3.7 million bond issue Tuesday for school improvements including security enhancements and a new safe room. The measure passed with 65% of the vote, topping the supermajority needed for passage of the bond issue.
Funds from the bond issue will also pay for improvements to athletic fields and facilities, and the installation of air conditioning in some buildings that don’t have it.
A grant from FEMA will pay 75 percent of the costs to construct the safe room.
Voters in Country Club Village voted 197 to 133 to approve a new half-cent sales tax. They also selected three candidates to serve on the board of trustees. Winning that vote were Suzanne Bradley, Elmer Mayes and Bill Schellhorn.
Voters within the Tri-County Ambulance District approved two ballot questions which will allow the district to collect a half-cent sales tax to cover increased costs and pay for new equipment and pay raises for its paramedics.
Voters in the Hiawatha, Kansas School District gave 72% approval to a $9.2 million bond issue for school improvements.
Unofficial tallies in the Hiawatha mayor’s race showed City Commissioner Steffen Shamburg beating fellow commissioner Bill Collins by just three votes, but some provisional ballots had yet to be considered.
In another close mayoral race in Brown County, they may have to flip a coin in the town of Reserve, Kansas. The two candidates each received 11 votes.