The Flowing Wells Unified School District was the lone bright spot for education advocates in Tuesday’s election, after voters there approved a $24 million bond.
That money will go toward scrapping school buildings that were designed for an era predating the internet and even air conditioning, and to replace old school buses, technology, furniture and playground equipment.
The district’s Proposition 455 was leading by a margin of 61 to 39 percent after the vast majority of ballots were counted as of 7:20 p.m. There is still an unknown number of provisional and uncounted ballots that will not be calculated until at least Wednesday, though not enough to change the course of the proposition.
The measure will fund a wholesale renovation of Walter Douglas Elementary School, a small K-6 school in the Flowing Wells Unified School District.
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Flowing Wells’ bond will also pay for improvements at seven other schools, including replacing old air-conditioning systems, removing old portable buildings and constructing new classrooms, replacing roofing and restoring athletic fields and playgrounds at several schools.
Flowing Wells Superintendent David Baker said the improvements will go a long way toward making up for the capital funding the district has lost from the state in the past decade.
