PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special bond election will be held in Carbon County School District, Utah (the “District”), on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, at which Bond Election there shall be submitted to the qualified, registered voters residing within the District the following question:
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CARBON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, CARBON COUNTY, UTAH
BOND ELECTION
November 5, 2019
Darin Lancaster
Business Administrator
Shall the Board of Education of Carbon County School District, Utah, be authorized to issue General Obligation Bonds in a principal amount not to exceed Thirty-Six Million Dollars ($36,000,000) for the purpose of paying all or a portion of the costs to acquire land; acquiring, constructing, furnishing and equipping new school facilities; improving or rebuilding existing facilities; and the authorization and issuance of the Bonds due and payable with a term not to exceed twenty-one (21) years from the date or dates of issuance of the Bonds?
PROPERTY TAX COST OF THE BONDS
If the Bonds are issued as planned, without regard to the taxes currently levied for outstanding bonds that will reduce over time, an annual property tax to pay debt service on the Bonds will be required over a period of twenty (20) years in the estimated amount of $104 on a $125,000 residence and in the estimated amount of $189 on a business property having the same value.
If there are other outstanding bonds, an otherwise scheduled tax decrease may not occur if these bonds are issued.
The foregoing information is only an estimate and is not a limit on the amount of taxes that the District may be required to levy to pay debt service on the Bonds. The District is obligated to levy taxes to the extent provided by law in order to pay the Bonds.
HOW MUCH WILL MY TAXES GO UP?
The District is required by law to include the paragraphs above in this ballot. However, because the District has other outstanding bonds that will reduce over time, it is expected that there will only be an approximate $68 increase in the current annual property tax to pay debt service levied by the District on a residence with a $125,000 value (average value residence in the District) and a $124 increase for a business property having the same value.
FOR THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS
AGAINST THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS
The bond election will be administered entirely by absentee ballot. Voters are not required to apply for an absentee ballot for the election. The election officer will mail to each registered voter within the District an absentee ballot and a postage paid business reply envelope. For a voter that registers to vote after the absentee ballots have been mailed, the County Clerk will either give the voter an absentee ballot and envelope to vote in the County Clerk’s office or mail an absentee ballot, postage paid, to the voter. If a voter fails to follow the instructions included with the absentee ballot, the voter will be unable to vote in the election.
There is no special registration of voters for the special election; the official register of voters last made or revised shall constitute the register for the special election, except that all persons who reside within the District and are registered to vote in the regular general election held on that day shall be permitted to vote in the special election. The County Clerk will make electronic registration lists available at each of the above-described polling places for use by registered voters entitled to use such voting place.
For information on registering to vote, voters may contact the office of the (a) Carbon County Clerk at 751 E 100 N #1100, Price, Utah 84501, telephone: (435) 636-3221 or visit the County’s website at co.carbon.ut.us, or (b) Utah Lieutenant Governor, State Capitol, 350 N. State Street, Suite 220, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114, (801) 538-1041 or visit the Lieutenant Governor’s website at election.utah.gov.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that on the date and at the location specified by the County Clerk, there will be conducted (a) a demonstration of the logic and accuracy testing of the voting devices to be used in the bond election and (b) a test of the automatic tabulating equipment or other apparatus to be used to tabulate the results of the November 5, 2019 bond election. These tests are open to public observation.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that on a day no sooner than 7 days and not later than 14 days after the bond election, the Board of Education of the District (the “Board”) will meet at its regular meeting place, 251 W 400 N, Price, Utah, and will canvass the returns and declare the results of the bond election during the Board meeting that is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m.
Pursuant to applicable provisions of Sections 11-14-208 and 20A-4-403 of the Utah Code, the period allowed for any contest of the bond election shall end 40 days after the date on which the results of the election are to be canvassed and the results thereof declared. No such contest shall be maintained unless a complaint is filed with the Clerk of the Judicial District Court in and for Carbon County, within the prescribed 40-day period.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Board of Education of Carbon County School District, Utah has caused this notice to be given.
DATED: September 27, 2019.
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CARBON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, UTAH
Published in the ETV Newspaper on October 2, 9 and 16, 2019.