According to early, unofficial results sent by the Devils Lake Public School District, the $31.8 million school building bond question failed roughly 53% to 47%. The question to increase the district’s debt limit also failed, 55% to 45%.
Rather than continue to invest in the aging building, which was completed in 1937, the Devils Lake School Board determined the best use of taxpayer money would be to invest in a new middle school building. Not everyone agrees.