School bond issues in Kingfisher and Cashion and a town government reorganization initiative in Dover will be decided in a special election next Tuesday.

Early voting starts Thursday and continues Friday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Kingfisher County Courthouse election board office.

Voters within Kingfisher and Cash-ion school districts and Dover town limits also can vote at their regular polling places from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

All voters are required to show a valid government-issued photo ID or their official voter registration card. Voters without ID will be allowed to sign an affidavit and cast a provisional ballot, which will be counted after election day if information in the affidavit can be verified.

The school bond issues require a 60-percent supermajority to pass, while the Dover question requires a simple majority (50 percent plus one vote) for passage.

Dover Town Election

Dover town residents will decide the fate of a referendum reducing the size of the town board from five to three trustees elected on a staggered term.

If the initiative passes, the existing board of trustees will have 30 days to enact an ordinance to make the change.

Cashion Bond Issues

Registered voters living within the boundaries of Cashion Independent School District No. 89 will decide two bond issues.

The first, in the amount of $10.865 million, would finance renovation of the elementary and middle schools, repaving and expanding the parking lot, adding locked an d monitored doors, connecting the high school and middle school buildings and adding a greenhouse and six classrooms to create an enclosed courtyard.

The second proposal, in the amount of $8.885 million, would finance construction of a track and repositioning of the baseball field to allow for construction of new bleachers, press box, restrooms, concession stand and multipurpose storage building.

Passage of the bond issues would result in an estimated 2 percent property tax increase over a total of 10 years before the bonds would be repaid and retired.

Kingfisher Bond Issues

Registered voters living within the boundaries of Kingfisher Independent School District No. 7 will decide a single $16.75 million bond issue to finance construction of a new seventh and eighth grade center south of the existing high school building.

Once the new building is constructed, lower grades will be rearranged as follows: fourth-sixth grades in the current middle school, second and third grades at Kingfisher Heritage School and pre-k, kindergarten and first grades would remain at Gilmour Elementary School.

The bond issue also would finance reconfiguration of the existing high school parking lot and driving lanes to accommodate parental pickup and drop off at the new school.

Estimated impact on property taxes over the bond issue’s 10-year payout is 4.29 percent, which doesn’t take into consideration any future increases in the district’s net assessed valuation.

The district’s net assessed valuation (total valuation of taxable property located within the district) had nearly doubled since the 2014-15 school year.