Oregon school districts, community colleges garner mixed results in bond and levy bids

Beaverton Faculty District voters permitted a $723 million building bond on Tuesday, the most important to cross in Oregon on an evening that delivered blended outcomes for Oregon colleges and neighborhood faculties.

Out of 15 school-related bonds and levies proposed to voters throughout the state, six handed and 9 failed.

Along with the same old pushback on new tax proposals, the Oregon Faculty Boards Affiliation famous districts that misplaced their bids had additionally struggled with voters’ fears over rising inflation and the notion that colleges are swimming on COVID-19 aid money.

Together with Beaverton, the election’s different massive bond winners embody Tillamook Group School, $14.4 million; Dallas Faculty District, $28 million; Corvallis Faculty District, five-year levy of $1.50 per $1,000; Linn-Benton Group School, $16 million; and the La Grande Faculty District, $4.8 million.

Faculty districts in Roseburg, Amity, Gervais, Lebanon, North Bend, South Umpqua, Days Creek, Criminal County and Morrow County misplaced their bond makes an attempt. Roseburg’s proposed faculty building bundle was second in measurement solely to Beaverton’s, at $154 million. Voters rejected it 54% to 46%, in line with partial returns as of Wednesday.

– Laura Gunderson, lgunderson@gmail.com, 503-221-8378