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Show Alpine Disfrk? Bond Vote Isf for Thursday, Oct. 1 6 President of the Board of Education, Harvey E. Smith, reminded the voters of the district that the $12,000,000 bond election of the Alpine School District will be held Thursday, October 16, 1975. He indicated that the passage of the bond election is necessary if the district adequately houses the fast-increasing fast-increasing student population of the arcf.,As the district staff has indicated earlier, some five hundred additional new students enroll in the school district each year. He further stressed that school construction over the next five lo six years is necessary in every major community in the district. While the most pressing needs are for additional classrooms in the elementary schools, a new high school must be built in Orem and an addition to American Fork High School is also a necessity. In Mr. Smith's statement he reminded the voters of the district that while the bond election is to authorize the district to sell $12,000,000 in bonds these bonds w ill not all be sold at the present time but will be sold only as the legal debt limit permits and as construction con-struction schedules are finalized. He furl her stressed that there will be no increase in the mill levy of the district as a result of the continuing construction program. The length of payment of the debt will be extended for a few additional years. All registered legal residents, eighteen years of age and older, living within the boundary of the district, are eligible to vote. The final date of registration .preceding the bond election is Tuesday, October 14, 1975. Registration will be held at all of the voting districts within the confines of the Alpine School District. Mr. Smith urged all voters to exercise their franchise and vote in this bond election. |
