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Published April 05, 2008 05:59 pm - NEOSHO, Mo. — Members of the Seneca Area Fire Protection District will again try to pass a bond issue to build additional fire stations and replace aging vehicles, while other voters across Newton County will face a variety of other issues and crowded school board races in the Tuesday elections. Seneca fire district to try again for bond issue By Derek Spellman dspellman@joplinglobe.com NEOSHO, Mo. — Members of the Seneca Area Fire Protection District will again try to pass a bond issue to build additional fire stations and replace aging vehicles, while other voters across Newton County will face a variety of other issues and crowded school board races in the Tuesday elections. Seneca Fire Protection District voters are being asked to approve a proposal that would issue $1.7 million in general-obligation bonds that would finance both construction of two more stations — one north of Seneca, one south — and the acquisition of three pumper tankers and three brush trucks. The measure needs a four-sevenths majority to pass on Tuesday. Fire officials last year asked voters to approve a similar proposal that called for $1.128 million in bonds for similar purposes. That plan failed by a margin of 366 votes in favor and 410 against. Under this year’s plan, voters will have to approve a 40-cent increase in the district’s levy, which is currently just over 28.14 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, for 20-year debt service on the bonds. The district currently does not have a debt-service levy strictly speaking, Steele said, although part of its current levy goes toward paying off vehicles and one of its station buildings. The current levy generates a total of between $75,000 and $85,000 a year, he said. About half of that money goes toward paying off a lease-purchase agreement used to acquire a fire engine and toward paying off a loan taken out for a building and one of the fire trucks. If the proposed bond measure passes Tuesday, it would be a strictly debt-service levy that would end after the bonds are paid off in 20 years, Steele said.The additional 40 cents would increase annual property taxes on a $100,000 house from $54.15 to $128.50. Across Newton County Voters within individual communities in Newton County are likely to have at least one reason to vote on Tuesday between ballot issues and candidate races, particularly for school boards. In Diamond, Gary Armstrong, Anthony C. Baker and Wendy Baker are all running for a spot on the City Council. The post carries a two-year term. The two Bakers share the same address. On the school board side, 14 people are vying for four seats on the board. Incumbents Bill Buening and Neil Vanlue are trying to be among the three school board members with three-year terms. They will face off against Donna White, Brian Morgan, Daniel T. Manning, Mickie Mahan, Candace Copley, Doug Bradley, Jeff Huffman and Bonnie Taylor. In the race for one seat with a one-year unexpired term, current board member Beth Nickolaisen will be seeking that spot against challengers Tracy J. Douglas, Patrick English and Jennifer Crosswhite. 
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