MINUTES OF THE CANVASS OF THE JOHNSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

SEPTEMBER 12, 1997

Chairperson Stutsman called to order the Johnson County Board of Supervisors at 9:07 a.m. to act as a canvass board to certify the results of the School Election of September 9, 1997. Present were Joseph Bolkcom, Jonathan Jordahl, and Sally Stutsman: absent: Stephen Lacina and Charles Duffy.

ABSTRACT OF ELECTION

FOR THE OFFICE OF Clear Creek Amana Community School Board of Directors District 4 (ONE to be elected) there were three hundred ninety-five (395) votes cast as follows: Jim Seelman received three hundred seventy-nine (379) votes and Scattering received sixteen (16) votes.

We therefore declare Jim Seelman duly elected to the office of School Board Director District 4, for the term of 3 years.

FOR THE OFFICE OF Clear Creek Amana Community School Board of Directors At Large (ONE to be elected) there were five hundred thirty-one (531) votes cast as follows: Terry Disterhoft received two hundred seventy-five (275) votes, Doreen E. Kidd received twenty-three (23) votes, Mary D. Vomacka received two hundred twenty-nine (229) votes, and Scattering received four (4) votes.

We therefore declare Terry Disterhoft duly elected to the office of School Board Director At Large, for the term of 3 years.

Upon the public measure (A) - Clear Creek Amana Community School District

Shall the Board of Directors of the Clear Creek Amana Community School District in the Counties of Iowa and Johnson, State of Iowa, be authorized for a period of seven (7) years to levy and impose a voter-approved physical plant and equipment tax not to exceed sixty-seven cents (67 cents) per one thousand dollars ($1,000) of assessed valuation of the taxable property within the school district, and be authorized annually, in combination, as determined by the Board, to levy a physical plant and equipment property tax upon all the taxable property within the school district commencing with the levy of property taxes for collection in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and to impose a physical plant and equipment income surtax upon the state individual income tax of each individual income taxpayer resident in the school district on December 31 for each calendar year commencing with calendar year 1998 or each year thereafter, to be determined by the Board each year, to be used for the purchase and improvement of grounds; the construction of schoolhouses or buildings and opening roads to schoolhouses or buildings; the purchase of buildings and the purchase of a single unit of equipment or a technology system exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) in value; the payment of debts contracted for the erection or construction of schoolhouses or buildings, not including interest on bonds; procuring or acquisition of library facilities; repairing, remodeling, reconstructing, improving or expanding the schoolhouses or buildings and additions to existing schoolhouses; expenditures for energy conservation; the rental of facilities under Chapter 28E; purchase of transportation equipment for transporting students; lease-purchase option agreements for school buildings and equipment exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000) in value per single unit; or equipment purchases for recreational purposes?

there were five hundred five (505) votes cast, as follows:

FOR the question there were two hundred one (201) votes cast.

AGAINST the question there were three hundred four (304) votes cast.

We therefore declare the public measure (A) not to be adopted.

FOR THE OFFICE OF Iowa City Community School Board of Directors (TWO to be elected) there were three thousand eight hundred eighty (3,880) votes cast as follows: Alan R. Leff received one thousand five hundred forty-seven (1,547) votes, Howard Vernon received six hundred thirty-five (635) votes, Peter Wallace received one thousand five hundred four (1,504) votes, and Scattering received one hundred ninety-four (194) votes.

We therefore declare Alan R. Leff and Peter Wallace duly elected to the offices of School Board Director, for the term of 3 years.

FOR THE OFFICE OF Lone Tree Community School Board of Directors (ONE to be elected) there were one hundred sixty (160) votes cast as follows: James Lively received one hundred two (102) votes, Jerry L. Sexton received fifty-eight (58) votes.

We therefore declare James Lively duly elected to the office of School Board Director, for the term of 3 years.

FOR THE OFFICE OF Solon Community School Board of Directors (TWO to be elected) there were two hundred two (202) votes cast as follows: Phyllis L. Connelly received one hundred four (104) votes, Don Otto received ninety-five (95) votes, and Scattering received four (4) votes.

We therefore declare Phyllis L. Connelly and Don Otto duly elected to the offices of School Board Director, for the term of 3 years.

Upon the public measure (A) - Solon Community School District

Shall the Board of Directors of the Solon Community School District in the Counties of Johnson and Linn, State of Iowa, be authorized for a period of ten (10) years, to levy annually, as determined by the Board, a voter-approved physical plant and equipment property tax not to exceed Sixty-Seven Cents (67 cents) per One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) of the assessed valuation of the taxable property within the school district commencing with the levy for collection in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, to be used for the purchase and improvement of grounds; the construction of schoolhouses or buildings and opening roads to schoolhouses or buildings; the purchase of buildings and the purchase of a single unit of equipment exceeding one thousand, five hundred dollars ($1,500) in value; the payment of debts contracted for the erection or construction of schoolhouses or buildings, not including interest on bonds; procuring or acquisition of libraries; repairing, remodeling, reconstruction, improving, or expanding the schoolhouses or buildings and additions to existing schoolhouses; expenditures for energy conservation; the rental of facilities under Chapter 28E; purchase of transportation equipment for transporting students; lease purchase option agreements for school buildings; or equipment purchases for recreational purposes?

there were one hundred four (104) votes cast, as follows:

FOR the question there were sixty-six (66) votes cast.

AGAINST the question there were thirty-eight (38) votes cast.

We therefore declare the public measure (A): Shall the Board of Directors of the Solon Community School District in the Counties of Johnson and Linn, State of Iowa, be authorized for a period of ten (10) years, to levy annually, as determined by the Board, a voter-approved physical plant and equipment property tax not to exceed Sixty-Seven Cents (67 cents) per One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) of the assessed valuation of the taxable property within the school district commencing with the levy for collection in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, to be used for the purchase and improvement of grounds; the construction of schoolhouses or buildings and opening roads to schoolhouses or buildings; the purchase of buildings and the purchase of a single unit of equipment exceeding one thousand, five hundred dollars ($1,500) in value; the payment of debts contracted for the erection or construction of schoolhouses or buildings, not including interest on bonds; procuring or acquisition of libraries; repairing, remodeling, reconstruction, improving, or expanding the schoolhouses or buildings and additions to existing schoolhouses; expenditures for energy conservation; the rental of facilities under Chapter 28E; purchase of transportation equipment for transporting students; lease purchase option agreements for school buildings; or equipment purchases for recreational purposes?

to be adopted.

Motion by Bolkcom, second by Jordahl, to approve the results of the School Election of September 9, 1997. Roll call: aye: Bolkcom, Jordahl, Stutsman; absent: Lacina, Duffy.

Adjourned at 9:15 a.m.

/s/ Sally Stutsman, Chair, Board of Supervisors

Attest: Tom Slockett, Auditor

By Mark Kistler, Recording Secretary

These minutes were sent for formal approval on September 18, 1997.