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Burlington-Edison School District voters rejected a $39.5 million bond issue Tuesday by a margin of 53 to 47 percent. There were enough ballots cast to validate the election—exceeding 60 percent of the total votes cast in the last general election.
It was the third time in nearly three years that a bond issue for the district’s construction needs had been defeated by voters increasingly concerned about taxes and economic pressures.
The vote announced by the Skagit County Auditor Tuesday night was 2,285 against the measure with 1,993 in favor. Only 930 ballots remained to be counted well below any possibility of changing the outcome.
Previously, district voters had turned down a $74 million bond measure in 2006 and rejected a $59.7 million bond proposal in 2007. The Burlington-Edison School Board had hoped that the bare-bones measure offered to the voters in Tuesday’s election would pass.
But the defeat of the latest bond measure was by a margin that far exceeded the defeat of both the 2006 and 2007 proposals.
