Boone Board of Education talks special election results
Sara Jordan-Heintz
Special to the Boone News Republican
The Boone Board of Education met April 6 in special session to discuss the official election results of the March 2 bond issue for the construction of a new elementary school.
A total of 1,231 votes were cast in favor of constructing the new school, with 297 no votes received, for a total of 1,528 votes cast.
School board member-at-large Matthew Elthon received 1,159 votes to remain on the board. He had been appointed on Oct. 5, 2020, to replace former board member Rev. Joey Weber. His was the only name on the ballot, with 62 scattering votes (the collective votes for any write-in candidates who each received less than five percent of the votes cast for an office), for a total of 1,221 votes.
Ames Tribune
The youngest students in the Boone Community School District will have a new school building in two years, after voters on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for that project in a special election.
In another special school election on the same day, voters also approved United Community School District which spans Boone and Story counties between Boone and Ames to update heating, ventilation and air conditioning and make other improvements.
New elementary school for Boone
In Boone CSD, more than 80% of voters on Tuesday approved a $23 million bond issue to build a new elementary school that s planned to be opened in fall 2023 for day care, preschool, transitional kindergarten, kindergarten and first-grade students.