Early Voting For Solon School Bond Begins July 31

Early voting for the September 9, 2014 Solon Community School District special election will begin Thursday, July 31 at 7:45 a.m. at the Johnson County Auditor’s Office.

Early voting will be available weekdays from 7:45 to 5:30 at the Auditor’s Office, 913 S. Dubuque St. in Iowa City. The office will be closed Monday, September 1 for Labor Day.

There will also be a satellite voting site on Friday, August 29. The Votemobile will be at the Solon vs. Regina football game at Spartan Stadium, Solon High School, from 4 to 9 p.m. Football admission is not required to vote. Thanks to the Johnson County Rural Health and Safety Clinic for use of the Votemobile.

Early voting by mail is also available. Request forms are available on our website jcauditor.com, or contact our office at 319-356-6004 for more information.

Solon Community School District voters will vote on two public measures: a bond issue and a physical plant and equipment levy.

Public Measure B: Bond issue. 60% supermajority required.

Shall the Board of Directors of the Solon Community School District in the Counties of Johnson and Linn, State of Iowa, be authorized to contract indebtedness and issue General Obligation Bonds in an amount not to exceed $25,500,000 to provide funds to construct, build, furnish and equip a new middle school building and improve the site; and to construct, build, furnish and equip additions to the existing high school, including a performing arts center and to remodel, repair, improve, furnish and equip a portion of the existing high school building, and to improve the sites?

Public Measure C: Physical Plant and Equipment Levy. 50% required.

Shall the Board of Directors of the Solon Community School District, in the Counties of Johnson and Linn, State of Iowa, for the purpose of purchasing and improving grounds; constructing schoolhouses or buildings and opening roads to schoolhouses or buildings; purchasing of buildings; purchase, lease or lease-purchase of technology and equipment; paying debts contracted for the erection or construction of schoolhouses or buildings, not including interest on bonds; procuring or acquisition of libraries; repairing, remodeling, reconstructing, improving, or expanding the schoolhouses or buildings and additions to existing schoolhouses; expenditures for energy conservation; renting facilities under Chapter 28E; purchasing transportation equipment for transporting students; lease purchase option agreements for school buildings or equipment; purchasing equipment authorized by law; or for any purpose or purposes now or hereafter authorized by law, be authorized for a period of ten (10) years, to levy annually, a voter-approved physical plant and equipment property tax not to exceed One Dollar Thirty-four Cents ($1.34) per One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) of the assessed valuation of the taxable property within the school district commencing with the levy for collection in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, or each year thereafter?