BOISE — Early voting is now underway in Canyon County for the August 28th election.
Three Canyon County school districts are re-running several bonds and levies that failed back in March, hoping for different outcomes this time around.
"I think our message right now is just get out and vote, every vote counts," says Middleton Superintendent Dr. Josh Middleton.
Dr. Middleton says the districts $28 million bond narrowly failed by just 108 votes last spring.
If passed this time around, the bond would go toward building a new elementary school.
"That will really alleviate the stress at two of our elementary schools now, and slowly creeping up at our third one as well as they start to reach capacity," says Dr. Middleton.
In addition, the money would go to making upgrades at the existing Heights Elementary School and purchasing land for future schools.
"We had a demographic study done one year ago and their projections one year ago were 1,000 students in the next five to six years," says Dr. Middleton.
In Parma, voters are being asked to approve a $5 million bond that would go toward improvements to the football stadium, tennis courts, expansion of the high school band room. and a new agriculture science classroom.
"In Canyon County, agriculture is the backbone of our economy and that's very true in the Parma School District and Parma community, so we want to be able to offer our students top-quality education, so they can expand and improve our agriculture science program here and transition into the workforce," says Parma Superintendent Jim Norton.
This measure also failed last March by only nine votes.
"March is a difficult time for agriculture to have people come out and vote, get off the tractor, I understand that. It's not that much easier in August, but hopefully a little bit easier," says Norton.
The Wilder School District is asking voters to approve a $5 million bond and levy that would go toward a new agriculture science facility, lunchroom and kitchen.
The measure also failed to win enough support from voters in March.