{"id":22862,"date":"2016-04-26T21:23:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-district-short-of-supermajority-fire-benefit-charge-passing\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T04:23:08","slug":"kent-school-district-short-of-supermajority-fire-benefit-charge-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-district-short-of-supermajority-fire-benefit-charge-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent School District short of supermajority, fire benefit charge passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The initial election night results posted on the King County Elections website showed a shortfall for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/depts\/elections\/results\/2016\/201604.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> Kent School District bonds and a thumbs up to the Kent Regional Fire Authority benefit charge. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kent School District proposition for capital improvement and school construction general obligation bonds for $252,000,000 was falling short of the needed 60 percent approval. The results were 58 percent approval and 42 percent no.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Voters are approving the fire benefit charge for the Kent Regional Fire Authority by 64 percent to 36 percent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>&#8226; Kent School District No. 415 Proposition No. 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Approved<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>57.90 percent &#8211; 11063 votes<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Rejected<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>42.10 percent &#8211; 8043 votes<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>&#8226; Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority Proposition No. 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Yes<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>64.15 percent &#8211; 9899 votes<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>No<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>35.85 percent &#8211; 5533 votes<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>King County Elections will post the results next on Wednesday at about 4 p.m.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initial election night results posted on the King County Elections website showed a shortfall for Kent School District bonds and a thumbs up to the Kent Regional Fire Authority benefit charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22862"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}