By Ricardo Cano | The Republic
Voters in 22 Maricopa County school districts will decide in the Nov. 7 election whether to approve bonds and overrides — temporary, local property-tax-funded measures districts say they use to help offset longstanding cuts in state education funding.
This will be the first election in which all such measures in the county will be decided through mail-in ballots.
How all-mail vote works
Voters should have received their ballots in the mail earlier this month.
Instead of going to a traditional assigned polling place, voters should put their ballots in the mail by Nov. 1 or drop them off at any ballot center through 7 p.m. on Nov. 7. Ballot centers enable voters to drop off their ballots close to home as they go about their daily activities.
The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office has published online a full list of ballot center locations and times at recorder.maricopa.gov.
What’s on the ballot?
This year’s bond and override proposals would help fund construction of new schools, new school buses, teacher pay and programs such as full-day kindergarten.
The Paradise Valley Unified School District, for example, is asking its voters to approve a $25.2 million maintenance-and-operations override that would partly go toward teacher recruitment and retention and would sustain music, art and drama programs.
