Several school millages have been rejected by area voters, with results still coming in from Tuesday’s special election. As of time of writing, Lapeer County has yet to post results from yesterday’s election, with all county results currently unofficial.
In Sanilac County, the Croswell-Lexington Community School District’s millage, which sought $37,100,000 in funding for school remodeling and improvements, proved contentious, with several townships split in their approval on the measure. As it currently stands, the millage has been approved, with unofficial results reporting 1,304 voters in favor and 1,132 voters against . Of the voting townships, Sanilac County’s Buel Township and St. Clair County’s consolidated township precinct of Grant and Greenwood outright denied the measure. Other townships had a closer battle, such as Washington Township, where only one vote carried the millage’s approval in the township, with 21 people voting for and 20 people voting against, and Fremont Township, where voters approved the measure 66 to 62.
Tuscola County’s Cass City Schools was seeking approval for a new $10 million bond from the voters of Huron, Tuscola and Sanilac counties, but the measure was rejected by just one vote, 625 to 624.
St. Clair County voters headed to the polls and resoundingly voted “no” to a Yale Public Schools bond proposal, with the measure rejected 1,572 to 825. Another school millage for St. Clair County, this one affecting Richmond Community Schools, was also overwhelmingly rejected, 686 to 276.
Huron County’s unofficial results reports that the Unionville-Sebewaing School sinking fund millage was passed in Sebewaing Township in a 457 to 277 vote. It is currently unclear if that represents all of the votes on the measure, as several Tuscola County townships had the millage on their ballot as well.
