Katy voters rejected a $261.5 million school bond issue favored by the Katy Independent School District administration and board, by just over 460 votes.
Early voters came out 2,292 to 1,600 in favor of the measure, but that turned around, and by the time final votes were tallied Saturday evening, 3,990 people voted against the bond issue and 3,528 voted in favor.
The measure was relentlessly criticized by the Katy Watchdog$ organization, an activist group that has contended the cureent school board and administration has not been exercising sound fiscal policy.
Two Watchdog$-supported candidates ran for board positions, and one of them – health-care consultant Tom Law – won, taking 2,609 votes in Position 7, to 2,539 for challenger Neal Howard and 937 for Greg Gibbs.
Incumbent Robert Shaw kept his Position 6 seat, defeating Watchdog$ member Fred Hink by 3,415 to 2,891 votes.
Defeat of the bond issue will delay school building projects in one of the fastest-growing districts in the state.
By: FortBendNow Archive on Sun, May 14, 2006
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