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Final tally pushes Placer school bond over the top
Last Updated 6:27 am PST Friday, February 29, 2008
Story appeared in METRO section, Page B2
AUBURN – Weeks after the polls closed, a $67.3 million bond measure to finance improvements and to add technology to classrooms in Dry Creek Joint Elementary School District west of Roseville has been declared approved by voters.
The district learned of the victory Thursday after the Placer County Elections Office counted thousands of absentee ballots cast in the Feb. 5 election.
Measure E needed 55 percent to be approved, but on election night was only 28 votes over that mark, and district officials said the race was too close to call.
Dry Creek Superintendent Mark Geyer said he was ecstatic when he learned Measure E, which will increase the district's tax rate by about $30 per $100,000 of assessed property value, had garnered 56.3 percent of the vote.
"We'll now be able to make improvements at all nine of our existing schools, and we can also cover the third phase of construction at our new school, Creekview Ranch Middle School," Geyer said.
Measure E came up a winner, thanks to voters from the Sacramento County part of the district. They accounted for only 3,835 of 14,347 ballots, but 69.7 percent approved, compared with 51.4 percent in the Placer County portion.
– Art Campos
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