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February 13, 2007 School Infrastructure Sales Tax Election
Results (after 8 PM
) | Turnout (updates 9:00, 11:00,
3:00)
Polls open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Vote at regular
polling places (NOT school polling places). 50% required to pass.
Summary:
To authorize imposition of
a 1% local sales and services tax in the County of Johnson for school
infrastructure projects for 10 years from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2017.
Complete ballot wording:
SHALL THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC MEASURE BE ADOPTED?:
A local sales and services tax for school infrastructure projects shall be
imposed in the County of Johnson at the rate of one percent. The tax will
begin on July 1, 2007. The tax will be in effect for a period of ten years
until June 30, 2017.
The money received from the tax shall be spent for school infrastructure,
including purchasing, building, furnishing, reconstructing, repairing,
demolishing, improving, expanding, or remodeling of a schoolhouse or
schoolhouses and additions thereto, gymnasium, stadium, athletic facilities,
field house, or school bus garage, purchasing and improving grounds, opening
roads to schoolhouses or buildings, the purchase, lease or lease-purchase of
buildings or equipment (including transportation and recreation equipment)
as authorized by law, procuring or acquiring libraries, expenditures for
energy conservation measures, the rental of facilities under Chapter 28E,
for public educational and recreational activities, (including community
education activities) the payment or retirement of bonds issued for school
infrastructure purposes or the payment or retirement of bonds issued under
Iowa Code Section 423E.5, for debt reduction or property tax relief, or for
any one or more of such purposes, or for any purpose or purposes now or
hereafter authorized by law.
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