After a recount by Woodbury County election officials, the Sergeant Bluff-Luton school bond measure has officially gone down to defeat, albeit very narrowly.
The votes for the $37 million school expansion project after the early November election count fell six votes short of passage. Iowa law says bond issue measures must reach the 60 percent supermajority threshold to pass.
The 1,174 ‘yes’ votes came out to a 59.7 percent affirmative vote, which moved SB-L Superintendent Chad Janzen to request the recount.
That recount took place over about three hours Monday afternoon, and the recount came up with the same total of 1,174 votes, Woodbury County Auditor Michelle Skaff reported.
“The results did not change… The (final) report was completed on the spot,” Skaff said in a late Monday email to Siouxland Public Media News.
Officials in the Sergeant Bluff-Luton School District have tried for many years to have a schools modernization proposal be passed by voters.
