The graphic above depicts voting patterns in the Cheney School District for the February and April high school expansion and renovation bond special elections. Arrows represent the percentage of overall support for the bond in five areas: Airway Heights, Cheney, Geiger Heights, the 9th Legislative District and Windsor/Marshal.
Coming in No. 4 in the 2015 Top 10 stories was the Cheney School District's $44.8 million proposed bond that failed twice when it went to voters.
The ballot measure asked voters to approve an increase of 75 cents per $1,000 of assessed property tax valuation, raising the overall tax rate to a projected $5.79 beginning in 2016, where it would have remained until 2027, baring no other bond measures.
It was the first of a two-part plan to expand and modernize the high school and build 12 new classrooms, remove eight existing portables, construct and equip specialty academic spaces along with a ne...
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