OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha district voters have approved a $421 million bond measure to improve their public schools.
The measure passed with more than 60 percent of the votes Tuesday. The district says it now can start a capital improvement campaign to repair and renovate several schools built in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.
Officials have said that if the measure were to pass, they would put a bond issue of $377 million forward in May 2017.
In other bond measure across the state, Custer County voters rejected a $3 million measure for a new judicial center.
Minden Public Schools voters approved a $23.1 million issue that will pay for a new high school building and middle school renovations. Scottsbluff district voters OK’d a $30 million measure for renovation of Scottsbluff High School.