VOTERS DEFEAT BURTON BOND ISSUE

  

Voters in the Burton Independent School District defeated a proposed $18 million bond issue yesterday (Tuesday).

Burton voters cast 556 votes against the bond issue, and 389 votes for it.  The Burton School District was seeking voter approval to issue $18 million in bonds to fund facility improvements.

Superintendent Edna Kennedy said before the election that Burton’s steady enrollment increases made the bonds more of a necessity than a want. The bonds would have funded additional classrooms, expanded science labs, increased cafeteria space, a new band hall, new high school competition gym and a new football field with an eight lane track.

Kennedy said today that the school district will continue to move forward in a positive way:

If the bond issue would have passed, it would have required a 31 cent increase in the District’s tax rate, with the average homeowner’s taxes rising $494 in 2017.