BLAINE COUNTY
Watonga schools
Office 5: Kristi Bruner, Earl Lane Edsall
CANADIAN COUNTY
County commissioner
District 3 (unexpired term): Jack Stewart, Republican; John Y. Morris, Democrat
City of Mustang
City council Ward 2: Kathleen Moon, Mark Grubbs
City of Piedmont
City council Ward 1: Craig Eidson, Larry M. Gage
CARTER COUNTY
City of Lone Grove
City council Ward 5: Mickey Davis, Michael T. Hicks
CLEVELAND COUNTY
City of Noble
City council Ward 3 (unexpired term): Robert Stegman, Gail Hatfield
CREEK COUNTY
Gypsy School
Proposition 1: $80,000 bond issue for replacement or renovation of the district’s bus barn. If funds are available, roof improvements and installation of heaters in a gym are planned.
Proposition 2: $170,000 to buy buses.
Pretty Water School
$225,000 bond issue for a new roof, installation of 11 heating and air conditioning units and painting and repair of the exterior of a school building.
CUSTER COUNTY
Five propositions for various improvements in Weatherford. If all five propositions are approved, a 1-cent sales tax that expires in September would be extended for 10 years. Percentages of the 1-cent tax would be dedicated to separate projects. If some but not all of the projects are approved, the sales tax extension would be less than 1 cent.
Proposition 1: 41 percent of the penny tax for city infrastructure improvements, including construction of a fire station.
Proposition 2: 34 percent of the penny tax would go toward a $14 million event center that would be shared by Southwestern Oklahoma State University. SWOSU plans to pay half of the cost of construction.
Proposition 3: 15 percent of the penny tax for beautification of a corridor between downtown Weatherford and the SWOSU campus.
Proposition 4: 5 percent of the penny tax for construction of a combination band room and safe room at the Weatherford School District’s middle school and renovation of rest rooms at East and West elementary schools.
Proposition 5: 5 percent of the penny tax toward construction of a surgical unit at Weatherford Regional Hospital.
GARVIN COUNTY
Wynnewood Schools
$275,000 bond issue for school renovations and technology equipment.
GRADY COUNTY
Chickasha Schools
$20.2 million bond issue for an early childhood center for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first grade.
HUGHES COUNTY
City of Healdton
Extension of a 1-cent sales tax to fund the local hospital.
JACKSON COUNTY
El Dorado Schools
$150,000 bond issue for telephones, intercom, security system, furnishings, upgrading the science lab and lunch room, refurbishing the interior and exterior, electrical work, lighting and new water fountains for the elementary and high schools.
KAY COUNTY
City of Blackwell
City council Ward 2: Jerry Reid, Max Wirtz
Peckham Schools
Proposition 1: $115,000 bond issue to repair the gym floor and school buildings.
Proposition 2: $160,000 bond issue to buy two buses.
LINCOLN COUNTY
City of Wellston
Extension of a half-cent sales tax for streets and sidewalks.
MUSKOGEE COUNTY
City of Muskogee
Mayor: John "Bob” Coburn, Teresa Carol Garris, John Tyler Hammons, Chris James
MURRAY COUNTY
Davis Schools
Office 5: Elva Campbell, Kip Pruitt
City of Sulphur
City council Ward 3: Karen Duck, Darryl Carter
Proposition: Charter amendment to extend the elected terms of city council members from two years to four years.
OKFUSKEE COUNTY
Paden Schools
Office 5: Keith Fipps, Kyle Norman
OKLAHOMA COUNTY
Oklahoma City Schools
Office 7: Ron Millican, Larry Collins
PAYNE COUNTY
City of Cushing
City commission Ward 3: F. Carey Seigle, John Henckel
City of Stillwater
City council Ward 2: John W. Bartley, Gary L. Stanton
City of Yale
City commission Ward 2: Richard Adsit, Jimmie Crenshaw
PONTOTOC COUNTY
City of Roff
Voters will decide whether the mayor can appoint the position of town clerk/treasurer.
STEPHENS COUNTY
City of Duncan
City council Ward 3: Tommy Edwards, Clyde Shaw
City council Ward 4: Ricky Mayes, John Herdt
Duncan Schools
$118.9 million bond issue to upgrade the high school building and extracurricular facilities. The district also would build three new elementary schools.
Marlow Schools
Office 5: Terry Turner, Cody Bannister
TULSA COUNTY
City of Bixby
City council Ward 4: Rod Taylor, Ray Bowen
Glenpool Schools
Proposition 1: $25 million bond issue for 25 new classrooms, expanding the district’s kitchen and the high school’s student center, completing road construction, resurfacing the track and football field, and adding a new gymnasium, baseball and softball fields and a locker room.
Proposition 2: $170,000 bond issue for two school buses.
WASHITA COUNTY
Washita School
Voters will decide whether to approve annexation to the Cordell School District, effective May 1.
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
Is the lottery failing to live up to hype? NO !!!!!!!!!! Part One
Sun December 30, 2007
Is the lottery failing to live up to hype
By Wendy K. Kleinman
Staff Writer
The penny most people use to reveal a scratch-off is about how much of a $1 lottery ticket purchase that ends up going to public school districts.
The Oklahoma City and Tulsa school districts each receive about 1 percent of the Lottery Commission's total annual revenue. Other districts receive even less.
The money districts get is earmarked for specific purposes, education officials said.
Yet there is a common perception — which can largely be traced back to advertising when voters approved a lottery — that school accounts should be brimming with lottery profits.
With a projected shortfall in lottery funds revealed last week for this school year and for the second year in a row, state schools Superintendent Sandy Garrett wants to change the way lottery money gets to schoolchildren, so it can help public education.
How it affects schools
Financial shortfalls
The Legislature appropriates lottery money to schools during its annual budget session, based on estimates of how much money the lottery will generate.
This year, schools will get $4.6 million less than the $36.9 million that was budgeted, according to financial figures available at Thursday's meeting of the state Board of Equalization. Last year, schools were allotted $21.8 million less than the $53 million appropriated.
That cost contributed to a loss of more than a dozen teaching positions in Enid last year, school district spokeswoman Amber Fitzgerald said.
Lottery funds last year were given to districts to help pay for the $3,000 teacher pay raise mandated by the Legislature.
But in Enid, the lottery money paid for about 30 percent of that pay raise. As a result of the shortfall, the local board of education had to cut $1.6 million from teacher's salaries and elsewhere to come up with enough funds, Fitzgerald said. That cost the district about 20 teachers.
The shortfall was not the sole reason for the cuts, but it was a factor, she said.
Garrett will ask the state Board of Education at its January meeting to OK a request for supplemental funding from the Legislature to cover the shortfall, she said Thursday.
Money tied up
A $10 million bond issue to build an elementary school and make other infrastructure improvements in Enid failed in mid-December. District officials received questions about why lottery money wasn't being used for those improvements, Fitzgerald said, even though that would be illegal.
"The perception probably comes from the campaign to pass the lottery when we had the state question,” said Shawn Hime, an assistant superintendent at the state Education Department.
"Most of (the advertising includes) young children, so it makes you think the money is going to young children, while only 45 percent of it is,” Hime said.
That's 45 percent out of the 30 to 35 percent of the lottery's annual revenue that goes into the Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund. The rest of the lottery's revenue goes to prizes, lottery operations and other expenses.
From the trust fund, 45 percent goes to prekindergarten through 12th-grade education; 5 percent to a school consolidation fund; and 5 percent to a teacher retirement fund. The Legislature divides the rest among higher education, technical centers and schools for the blind and deaf.
The portion that goes to secondary education must be divided among more than 500 districts in the state.
How it could be changed
What lottery officials want
Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, lottery officials must turn over at least 35 percent of profits to the education trust fund. The current minimum is 30 percent.
But the greater the percentage of money that must go to education, the less there is to put into prizes, and Oklahoma already has the lowest payout of any state, said Rollo Redburn, the commission's director of administration.
What the Lottery Commission wants to do is make prizes worth more, which it expects to result in more sales. Therefore, even though a smaller percentage of profits would go to schools, there would be more actual cash to give out, Redburn said.
Republican Rep. Chris Benge said he thinks the lottery's novelty has worn off. He said people here gamble at casinos.
"I don't see any real growth opportunities out there for the lottery,” said Benge, chairman of the House Appropriations and Budget Committee.
What education officials want
Garrett wants lottery funds to be distributed outside legislative appropriations.
That way, schools would not have to absorb the cost when there's a shortfall — instead, schools would receive "bonus” money. School boards also would be able to choose how to use the funds, Garrett said.
Is the lottery failing to live up to hype
By Wendy K. Kleinman
Staff Writer
The penny most people use to reveal a scratch-off is about how much of a $1 lottery ticket purchase that ends up going to public school districts.
The Oklahoma City and Tulsa school districts each receive about 1 percent of the Lottery Commission's total annual revenue. Other districts receive even less.
The money districts get is earmarked for specific purposes, education officials said.
Yet there is a common perception — which can largely be traced back to advertising when voters approved a lottery — that school accounts should be brimming with lottery profits.
With a projected shortfall in lottery funds revealed last week for this school year and for the second year in a row, state schools Superintendent Sandy Garrett wants to change the way lottery money gets to schoolchildren, so it can help public education.
How it affects schools
Financial shortfalls
The Legislature appropriates lottery money to schools during its annual budget session, based on estimates of how much money the lottery will generate.
This year, schools will get $4.6 million less than the $36.9 million that was budgeted, according to financial figures available at Thursday's meeting of the state Board of Equalization. Last year, schools were allotted $21.8 million less than the $53 million appropriated.
That cost contributed to a loss of more than a dozen teaching positions in Enid last year, school district spokeswoman Amber Fitzgerald said.
Lottery funds last year were given to districts to help pay for the $3,000 teacher pay raise mandated by the Legislature.
But in Enid, the lottery money paid for about 30 percent of that pay raise. As a result of the shortfall, the local board of education had to cut $1.6 million from teacher's salaries and elsewhere to come up with enough funds, Fitzgerald said. That cost the district about 20 teachers.
The shortfall was not the sole reason for the cuts, but it was a factor, she said.
Garrett will ask the state Board of Education at its January meeting to OK a request for supplemental funding from the Legislature to cover the shortfall, she said Thursday.
Money tied up
A $10 million bond issue to build an elementary school and make other infrastructure improvements in Enid failed in mid-December. District officials received questions about why lottery money wasn't being used for those improvements, Fitzgerald said, even though that would be illegal.
"The perception probably comes from the campaign to pass the lottery when we had the state question,” said Shawn Hime, an assistant superintendent at the state Education Department.
"Most of (the advertising includes) young children, so it makes you think the money is going to young children, while only 45 percent of it is,” Hime said.
That's 45 percent out of the 30 to 35 percent of the lottery's annual revenue that goes into the Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund. The rest of the lottery's revenue goes to prizes, lottery operations and other expenses.
From the trust fund, 45 percent goes to prekindergarten through 12th-grade education; 5 percent to a school consolidation fund; and 5 percent to a teacher retirement fund. The Legislature divides the rest among higher education, technical centers and schools for the blind and deaf.
The portion that goes to secondary education must be divided among more than 500 districts in the state.
How it could be changed
What lottery officials want
Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, lottery officials must turn over at least 35 percent of profits to the education trust fund. The current minimum is 30 percent.
But the greater the percentage of money that must go to education, the less there is to put into prizes, and Oklahoma already has the lowest payout of any state, said Rollo Redburn, the commission's director of administration.
What the Lottery Commission wants to do is make prizes worth more, which it expects to result in more sales. Therefore, even though a smaller percentage of profits would go to schools, there would be more actual cash to give out, Redburn said.
Republican Rep. Chris Benge said he thinks the lottery's novelty has worn off. He said people here gamble at casinos.
"I don't see any real growth opportunities out there for the lottery,” said Benge, chairman of the House Appropriations and Budget Committee.
What education officials want
Garrett wants lottery funds to be distributed outside legislative appropriations.
That way, schools would not have to absorb the cost when there's a shortfall — instead, schools would receive "bonus” money. School boards also would be able to choose how to use the funds, Garrett said.
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