{West Virginia}...Voters in Boone County voted against a $45 million school bond that would have received an additional $23 million from the West Virginia School Building Authority to be used to upgrade schools. Polls closed at 7:30 P.M. Saturday with all 39 precincts reporting in. Nine hundred thirty-one residents voted for the bond referendum while 2,640 voted against it. f the bond had passed, several schools would have gotten some serious upgrades. The school bond was also going to pay for a new high school in Madison. Boone County Schools Superintendent John Hudson explained from the beginning that passage of the bond issue would mean an increase in property taxes.
