ASD officials ‘cautiously optimistic’ capital improvement bonds will pass

Anchorage School District Bond package ahead by slim marginANCHORAGE, Alaska - , supported by 52% of votes counted.

“We are very encouraged by the preliminary results from the election,” ASD Communications Director MJ Thim said. “And we are cautiously optimistic as we wait for more votes to be counted.”that failed to pass by a slim margin. The $111 million bond included a controversial component: $31 million to rebuild Inlet View Elementary School.

Joelle Hall, chair of"School Bonds Yes!”, a group formed to support school bonds, said the current bond is different in several ways, which is why voters seem more inclined to support it. “This is a significantly smaller bond,” Hall said. “And so we heard loud and clear that people were uncomfortable with the size of the bond — the composition inside of the bond might also have been a concern — but I think it’s a little bit of sticker shock.”

The current bond package includes money to rebuild Inlet View but at a much smaller amount of $19 million. More than $40 million is slated for maintenance and repairs and security enhancements, all things the district says voters want.“We don’t want to jinx anything just given what happened two years ago,” he said. “We are really mindful of the feedback that we got from the community.

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