The votes cast on November 4 in a Sergeant Bluff-Luton school bond measure that resulted in a narrow defeat will be recounted next week.
Siouxland Public Media News last week first reported that SB-L Superintendent Chad Janzen requested the recount. The measure failed to pass by only six votes.
During the Tuesday meeting of the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors,
County Auditor Michelle Skaff announced the recount will take place on Monday, November 24, beginning at 1 p.m.
Officials in the Sergeant Bluff-Luton School District have tried for many years to have a schools modernization proposal be passed by voters.
The latest plan of $37 million didn’t quite reach the 60 percent supermajority threshold of affirmative voting to pass. The final count came out to 59.7 percent affirmative vote, as the 1,174 ‘yes’ votes were six votes short of passage.
Skaff estimated the recount could take two or three hours.
“The recount includes the same programming from the election and we will use an electronic tabulator to read and count the ballots. The Recount Board will submit a report to me that will be reviewed to determine the outcome,” Skaff said, which could come Tuesday, November 25.
