April 8, 2008 Bond Issue and Prop C Tax Levy Waiver Continuance

72.4% for bond (passed – required 4/7ths)    64.6% for Prop C (required simple majority)

Bond: 8,072 YES votes and 3,083 NO votes    Prop C: 7,159 YES votes and 3,919 NO votes

Bond: $54 million (no-tax-increase)    Prop C: 20 cent (no-tax-increase)
 
Bond Issue:

 

• Construction of Sunset Valley Elementary — opened fall of 2009.
• All-day kindergarten classrooms and support classrooms.
• Great Beginnings Early Education Center – construction of two classrooms.
• Mason Elementary School – Addition of four classrooms, school improvements and new cafeteria/kitchen space.
• Hazel Grove Elementary – remodeling of classrooms and office area.
• Lee’s Summit High School – improvements in classrooms, broadcast journalism editing studio and family and consumer science rooms.
• Lee’s Summit North High School – Addition of industrial technology lab, band storage room, docking/mechanical space and hallways.
• Lee’s Summit West High School – planned addition of 18 classrooms to increase school’s capacity by 357 students.
• Instructional technology.
• Miller Park Center, remodeled facility to serve special needs students previously served outside district.
• R-7 Aquatic Center, self-supporting swim/dive facility — opened fall of 2009.
• Marching band uniform replacement at LSHS and LSNHS.
• Portable bleachers (district-wide use).
• Capital projects (repairs and improvements) at several schools/other sites.
• School bus purchases/parking lot improvements.