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Sunday, May 11, 2008
On the ballot
Atoka County
Farris School District: Voters will decide whether to annex the school district to the Lane School District.
Caddo County
Countywide: A five-year, half-cent sales tax to fund senior citizen nutrition centers, sheriff's department, firefighting, repair and maintenance of the county courthouse, and for the general fund.
Canadian County
Countywide: A 0.35 percent, 15-year county sales tax increase to fund construction of a new county jail. After 15 years, the tax would drop to 0.25 percent and become permanent.
Carter County
Lone Grove Schools: A $9.75 million bond issue for nine elementary classrooms, elementary cafeteria expansion, 1,500-seat gymnasium and 600-seat auditorium.
Choctaw County
Hugo Schools: Proposition 1 — $11.515 million bond issue for a new high school, new girls locker room, renovations to old high school.
Proposition 2 — $155,000 bond issue for school buses.
Cleveland County
Countywide: A 2-mill property tax increase for improvements to the Pioneer Library System.
City of Norman
Proposition 1 — A half-cent sales tax increase for more firefighters, police officers and two new fire stations.
Proposition 2 — $49.5 million bond issue for a new Norman library.
Proposition 3 — $11.2 million bond issue to renovate city buildings.
Ward 2 Council runoff
Chebon Marshall
Tom Kovach
Comanche County
Lawton Schools: Proposition 1 — $33.5 million bond issue for 40 elementary classrooms, 25 middle school classrooms and 25 high school classrooms; 2,000 computers and 800 Smart Boards.
Proposition 2 — $5 million bond issue to upgrade the bus fleet.
Custer County
Butler Schools: Voters will decide whether to annex the school district to the Arapaho School District.
Grady County
Bridge Creek Schools: A $9.685 million bond issue for a new high school.
Hughes County
Holdenville Schools: A $2.97 million bond issue to add 12 classrooms, a computer lab and a new rest room to the elementary school, and move all prekindergarten through fifth-grade students into a single school.
Kay County
Countywide: A two-thirds-cent sales tax to build and operate a new county detention facility and to pay for existing jail renovations and operations, with one-third-cent expiring in 20 years and the remaining one-third-cent remaining in effect unless repealed in a county election.
Lincoln County
Stroud Schools: A $9.5 million bond issue for a new gymnasium.
McClain County
Countywide: A 2-mill property tax increase for improvements to the Pioneer Library System.
Muskogee County
City of Muskogee
Mayor runoff
Hershel Ray McBride
John Tyler Hammons
Ward 2 Council runoff
Frank C. Borovetz Jr.
Charles Shawn Raper
Ward 4 Council runoff
Jackie Dewayne Luckey
Troy Earl Stoutermire
Oklahoma County
Countywide: Proposition 1 — $55 million bond issue to acquire vacant General Motors facility, to be leased to Tinker Air Force Base.
Proposition 2 — $10.5 million bond issue for courthouse improvements including replacing utility systems.
Proposition 3 — $5.75 million bond issue for additional storage and management system for county records.
Proposition 4 — $6 million bond issue for flood control and countywide flood relief plan.
Proposition 5 — $7.25 million bond issue for new Oklahoma County OSU Cooperative Extension Service facility.
Crooked Oak Schools: A $15.3 million bond issue for a fifth- and sixth-grade center, board of education building and demolition of the current board of education building.
Oakdale Schools: Proposition 1 — $2.7 million for construction of an addition to the middle school.
Proposition 2 — $400,000 bond issue for transportation.
Pittsburg County
City of McAlester: Voters are considering an updated, revised city charter that incorporates all amendments previously adopted.
Pottawatomie County
Countywide: 2-mill property tax increase for improvements to the Pioneer Library System.
Wanette Schools: Proposition 1 — $235,000 bond issue for heating and air conditioning, roof repair, gymnasium remodeling and new floor, classroom and cafeteria repairs, and technology.
Proposition 2 — $265,000 transportation bond issue for buses and an agriculture pickup.
Sequoyah County
Sallisaw Central School: A $1.6 million bond issue for six classrooms, science lab, high school rest rooms and to start construction of a high school gymnasium.
Tulsa County
Tulsa Community College: Proposition 1 — $76 million bond issue for annual operations, learning center to be built on land donated by the city and construction and remodeling at the college's four campuses to expand course offerings.
Proposition 2 — Increasing operating millage from 6 mills to 7.7 mills.
Washington County
City of Bartlesville: Proposition 1 — Continue existing half-cent sales tax through June 30, 2014.
Proposition 2 —$8 million bond issue for road construction and improvement.
Proposition 3 —$2 million bond issue for constructing and improving the Frontier Pool and Frontier Park.
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