Oklahoma 2008 local ballot measures

This table shows all local initiatives and referenda that made the ballot in Oklahoma for 2008.

November 4, 2008, Elections

Tulsa County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
City of Tulsa	LR	PROPOSITION NO. 1 (Tulsa, OK 2008)	Extending a 1 percent sales tax through June 2014 and increasing the tax from 3 percent to 3.212 percent for a $451.63 million arterial streets, bridges, trails and rail crossings program	Approved
City of Tulsa	BI	PROPOSITION NO. 2 (Tulsa, OK 2008)	A $285 million general obligation bond issue for a $451.63 million arterial streets, bridges, trails and rail crossings program	Approved
Leonard Public Schools	LR	Proposition (LPS, Tulsa, OK 2008)	Proposal to cease operations and merge the school district with the Bixby School District	Approved

May 13, 2008, Elections

Atoka County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Farris School District	LR	Annexation measure	Would allow annexing the Farris School District to the Lane School District	Defeated

Caddo County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Countywide	LR	Sales Tax	Would authorize a 5-year sales tax to fund senior citizens nutrition centers, sheriff's department, firefighting, repair and maintenance of the county courthouse and for the general fund	Defeated

Canadian County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Countywide	LR	Sales Tax	Would authorize a .35% 15-year county sales tax increase to fund construction of a new county jail. After 15 years, the tax would drop to .25% and become permanent	Defeated

Carter County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Lone Grove Schools	BI	Construction Bond Issue	Would authorize a $9.75 million bond issue for 9 elementary classrooms, elementary cafeteria expansion, 1,500-seat gymnasium and 600-seat auditorium	Approved

Choctaw County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Hugo Schools	BI	Proposition 1	Would authorize a $11.515 million bond issue for a new high school, new girls locker room, renovations to old high school	Defeated
Hugo Schools	BI	Proposition 2A	Would authorize a $155,000 bond issue for school buses	Defeated

Cleveland County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Countywide	LR	Property Tax Increase	Would authorize a 2-mill property tax increase for improvements to the Pioneer Library System	Approved
City of Norman	LR	Proposition 1	Would authorize a sales tax increase for more firefighters, police officers, and two new fire stations	Approved
City of Norman	BI	Proposition 2	Would authorize a $49.5 million bond issue for a new Norman library	Defeated
City of Norman	BI	Proposition 3	Would authorize a $11.2 million bond issue to renovate city buildings	Approved

Comanche County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Lawton Schools	BI	Proposition 1	Would authorize a $33.5 million bond issue for 40 elementary classrooms, 25 middle school classrooms and 25 high school classrooms; 2,000 computers and 800 Smartboards	Defeated
Lawton Schools	BI	Proposition 2	Would authorize a $5 million bond issue to upgrade the bus fleet	Defeated

Custer County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Butler Schools	LR	Annexation measure	Would approve annexing the Butler School District to the Arapaho School District	Approved

Grady County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Bridge Creek Schools	BI	New High School Bond Issue	Would authorize a $9.685 bond issue for a new high school	Approved

Hughes County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Holdenville Schools	BI	Construction Bond Issue	Would authorize a $2.97 million bond issue to add 12 classrooms, a computer lab and a new restroom to the elementary school, and move all prekindergarten through fifth-grade students into a single school	Defeated

Kay County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Countywide	LR	Sales Tax	Would authorize a two-thirds-cent sales tax to build and operate a new county detention facility and to pay for existing jail renovations and operations, with 1/3-cent expiring in 20 years and the remaining 1/3-cent remaining in effect unless repealed in a county election	Approved

Lincoln County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Stroud Schools	BI	Gymnasium Bond Issue	Would authorize a $9.5 million bond issue for a new gymnasium	Approved

McClain County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Countywide	LR	Property Tax Increase	Would authorize a 2-mill property tax increase for improvements to the Pioneer Library System	Approved

Oklahoma County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Countywide	BI	Proposition 1	Would authorize a $55 million bond issue to acquire vacant General Motors facility, to be leased to Tinker Air Force Base	Approved
Countywide	BI	Proposition 2	Would authorize a $10.5 million bond issue for courthouse improvements, including replacing utility systems	Approved
Countywide	BI	Proposition 3	Would authorize a $5.75 million bond issue for additional storage and management system for county records	Defeated
Countywide	BI	Proposition 4	Would authorize a $7.25 million bond issue for new Oklahoma County OSU Cooperative Extension Service building	Defeated
Countywide	BI	Proposition 5	Would authorize a $6 million bond issue for flood control and countywide flood relief plan	Approved
Crooked Oak Schools	BI	Construction Bond Issue	Would authorize a $15.3 million bond issue for a fifth and sixth grade center, board of education building and demolition of the current board of education building	Defeated
Oakdale Schools	BI	Proposition 1	Would authorize a $2.7 million bond issue for construction of an addition to the middle school	Defeated
Oakdale Schools	BI	Proposition 2	Would authorize a $400,000 bond issue for transportation	Approved

Pittsburg County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
City of McAlester	LR	City Charter	Would approve an updated, revised city charter that incorporates all amendments previously adopted	Approved

Pottawatomie County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Countywide	LR	Property Tax Increase	Would authorize a 2-mill property tax increase for improvements to the Pioneer Library System	Approved
Wanette Schools	BI	Proposition 1	Would authorize a $235,000 bond issue for heating and air conditioning, roof repair, gymnasium remodeling and new floor, classroom and cafeteria repairs, technology	Approved
Wanette Schools	BI	Proposition 2	Would authorize a $265,000 transportation bond issue for buses and an agriculture pickup	Approved

Sequoyah County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Sallisaw Central School	BI	Construction Bond Issue	Would authorize a $1.6 million bond issue for six classrooms, science lab, high school rest rooms, and to start construction of a high school gymnasium	Defeated

Tulsa County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
Tulsa Community College	BI	Proposition 1	Would authorize a $76 million bond issue for annual operations, learning center to be built on land donated by the city and construction and remodeling at the college's four campuses to expand course offerings	Defeated
Tulsa Community College	BI	Proposition 2	Would authorize increasing operating millage from 6 mills to 7.7 mills	Defeated

Washington County

City/District	Type	Title	Description	Outcome
City of Bartlesville	LR	Proposition 1	Would authorize continuing existing sales tax through June 30, 2014	Approved
City of Bartlesville	BI	Proposition 2	Would authorize a $8 million bond issue for road construction and improvement	Approved
City of Bartlesville	BI	Proposition 3	Would authorize a $2 million bond issue for constructing and improving the Frontier Pool and Frontier Park	Approved

See also

• List of Oklahoma ballot measures
• Laws governing the initiative process in Oklahoma
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Oklahoma

External links

• News OK Election Results