Despite that failure, six other environmental bond measures passed easily between 1960 and 1986.
A bond measure to raise $12,000 for construction was put to voters in July 1912.
To pay the $68,000 bill, voters passed a bond measure.
Whether the bond measure will be approved, however, is far from certain.
In 1908, local citizens passed a bond measure to raise money to build a high school.
The district passed a $374 million bond measure in 2008.
The two-story building was paid for from a 2006 bond measure.
Each of the two projects will receive $450 million under the bond measure.
It was the first bond measure passed in the district since 1996.
In 2005 they voted down a $58.7 million bond measure.