Published in The Muskogee Phoenix March 17 & 24, 2015
PROCLAMATION AND NOTICE OF ELECTION
Under and by virtue of Section 26, Article X of the Oklahoma Constitution and Title 70, Article XV, Oklahoma Statutes 2011, and other laws supplementary and amendatory thereto and a Resolution of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 8 of
Muskogee County, Oklahoma, adopted on the 4th day of February, 2016, an election is here-by called to be held in said School District on the 5th day of April, 2016, for the purpose of submitting to the registered qualified electors thereof the following proposition:
PROPOSITION
“Shall Independent School District Number 8 of Muskogee County, Oklahoma, incur an indebtedness by issuing its bonds in the sum of One Million Seven Hundred and Eighty Five Thousand Dollars ($1,785,000.00) to provide funds to be issued in series for the purpose of constructing, equipping, repairing and remodeling school buildings, acquir-ing school furniture, fix-tures and equipment and acquiring and improving school sites and levy and collect an annual tax, in addition to all other taxes, upon all the taxable prop-erty in such District suffi-cient to pay the interest on such bonds as it falls due and also to constitute a sinking fund for the pay-ment of the principal thereof when due, said bonds to bear interest not to exceed the rate of ten (10%) percentum per annum, payable semi
annually and to become due serially within ten (10) years from their date?”
The voting devices used at said election shall set out the proposition as above set forth and shall also contain the words:
□ For the above proposition
□ Against the above proposition
The polls shall be opened at seven o’clock A.M. and remain open continuously until and be closed at seven o’clock P.M.
The number and location of the polling places and the names of the persons who shall conduct said election shall be designated by the County Election Board(s). Such officers shall also act as counters.
The specific projects for which at least seventy (70%) percent of the proceeds of the aforesaid Bonds shall be expended and the dollar amounts for each project shall be as follows:
Construct, equip and furnish the complete of the High School classroom building; repair and replace roofing fixtures; acquire and install technology equipment; acquire textbooks and classroom instruction equipment; acquire, renovate and repair security equipment; acquire additional furniture, fixtures and equipment throughout the district
$1,785,000
WITNESS our hands as President and Clerk of the above Board of
Education and the seal of said School District this 4th day of February, 2016.
/s/ JAMES MURR President, Board of Education
(SEAL)
ATTEST:
/s/ RICHARD MERRITT
Clerk, Board of Education