(Radio Iowa) – Today (Wednesday) is the first day Iowans may go into their county auditor’s office and vote.
According to an Iowans for Tax Relief analysis, residents in 59 Iowa counties will be able to vote on local projects that would be financed by raising property taxes to pay off bonds. Thirty-one public school districts seeking bonding authority for projects to renovate or build new facilities.
Voters in the Waterloo School District will decide whether to approve building a new high school and merging Waterloo’s two high schools in the fall of 2028. However, instead of property taxes, sales tax revenue the Waterloo district gets for infrastructure projects would be used to pay off the 165 million dollars worth of bonds.