Special election Feb. 7
The Red Oak School District will hold a special election for a new PPEL vote on Tuesday, Feb. 7.
According to information from the Montgomery County Auditor’s office, 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27 is the deadline to pre-register to vote for the special election. This applies to registration in person, including registration at driver’s license stations, or agencies, or by mail.
After Jan. 27, a person may register to vote at the auditor’s office and vote an absentee ballot. The process is the same as registering to vote on election day and specific documentation must be provided. Voters are requested to register before election day. For those wishing to vote absentee, the deadline to request an absentee ballot by mail is 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3. Anyone wishing to request an absentee ballot by mail should complete their requests as soon as possible and return them to the auditor’s office.
On Feb 7, voters may vote by absentee in person at the auditor’s office from 8 to 11 a.m. Polls will open for the special election from noon to 8 p.m. The Montgomery County Gold Fair Building will serve as the polling place for those Red Oak School District residents residing in Red Oak City Wards One, two, three; Coburg; Garfield, West, Red Oak, Grant, Frankfort, Lincoln, Sherman, Pilot Grove Townships in Montgomery County, Fremont Township in Page County, and Grove Township in Pottawattamie County.
The Montgomery County Auditor’s Office is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. If anyone has questions about voter registration, absentee ballots, or
voting, call the Auditor’s Office at 623-5127 or visit montgomerycountyiowa.com.
RED OAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
PHYSICAL PLANT AND EQUIPMENT LEVY BALLOT QUESTION
SHALL THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC MEASURE BE ADOPTED?
PROPOSITION A
Shall the Board of Directors of the Red Oak Community School District, in the Counties of Montgomery, Page and Pottawattamie, State of Iowa, for the purpose of purchasing and improving grounds; constructing schoolhouses or buildings and opening roads to schoolhouses or buildings; purchasing of buildings; purchase, lease or lease-purchase of technology and equipment; paying debts contracted for the erection or construction of schoolhouses or buildings, not including interest on bonds; procuring or acquisition of libraries; repairing, remodeling, reconstructing, improving, or expanding the schoolhouses or buildings and additions to existing schoolhouses; expenditures for energy conservation; renting facilities under Chapter 28E; purchasing transportation equipment for transporting students; lease purchase option agreements for school buildings or equipment; purchasing equipment authorized by law; or for any purpose or purposes now or hereafter authorized by law, be authorized for a period of ten (10) years to levy and impose a voter-approved physical plant and equipment tax of not exceeding One Dollar Thirty-Four Cents ($1.34) per One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) of assessed valuation of the taxable property within the school district, and be authorized annually, in combination, as determined by the board, to levy a physical plant and equipment property tax upon all the taxable property within the school district commencing with the levy of property taxes for collection in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, and to impose a physical plant and equipment income surtax upon the state individual income tax of each individual income taxpayer resident in the school district on December 31 for each calendar year commencing with calendar year 2020, or each year thereafter?