Opposition to the proposed 25-year, $29.9-million school bond issue has spurred a write-in campaign in a Nickerson-South Hutchinson USD 309 school board race.
Larry Meadows, who applied this summer to fill a vacant seat on the school board only to see the appointment vote delayed until after the election, has launched a write-in race against Mike Apfel.
One-term incumbent Apfel is running unopposed for Position 1 – a South Hutchinson seat – on the Nov. 5 ballot.
Meadows said he had toyed with the idea of filing to run for the seat, but missed the June deadline. He was on the steering committee as the district considered a school improvement bond issue, and he saw the development of the bond issue go “horribly wrong,” he said.
Meadows is conducting a “face-to-face” campaign, and he said he’s “not talked to anybody who’s been in favor” of the bond issue. A few have been opposed to any bond issue, but a majority are in favor of a smaller bond issue, he said.
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