By a large 66.1% to 33.8%, voters in New Mexico gave their approval to a ballot question calling for $24.2 million in bonds for the building and improvement of senior citizen facility improvements across the state.
Those facilities are in nearly two dozen counties and six pueblos.
Around $19.2 million in bond funding was approved for improvements to the state’s public and school-based libraries, winning by 63% to 37%; while 62% of voters gave their approval to Bond 3, which called for allocating up to $216 million, for higher education facility upgrades.
The bonds will support projects in the big University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University systems, as well as around two dozen community and Tribal college facility projects.
In Mesa, Arizona, voters approved a $157 million bond re-question that will go to fund new fire and medical facilities; police facilities; and public safety facilities.
Voters also gave their approval to facility bond proposals in the Tempe Union High School District, as well as the Phoenix Elementary School District, the Union Elementary School District, and the growing Queen Creek Unified School District.
In Douglas County, Colorado, it appeared that a $60 million bond for school facilities, including the construction of three new elementary schools, was heading for a narrow defeat.
In the Weld County School District RE-4, a $271 million bond supporting school facility work for schools in both the cities of Windsor and Severance appears to have passed.
By Garry Boulard