From Ballotpedia
This table shows all local initiatives and referenda that made the ballot in Oklahoma for 2008.
November 4, 2008, Elections
| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| Farris School District | LR | Annexation measure | Would allow annexing the Farris School District to the Lane School District | Defeated
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| Hugo Schools | BI | Proposition 2A | Would authorize a $155,000 bond issue for school buses | Defeated
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| 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
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| City of Norman | LR | Proposition 1 | Would authorize a sales tax increase for more firefighters, police officers, and two new fire stations | Approved
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| City of Norman | BI | Proposition 2 | Would authorize a $49.5 million bond issue for a new Norman library | Defeated
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| City of Norman | BI | Proposition 3 | Would authorize a $11.2 million bond issue to renovate city buildings | Approved
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| Lawton Schools | BI | Proposition 2 | Would authorize a $5 million bond issue to upgrade the bus fleet | Defeated
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| Butler Schools | LR | Annexation measure | Would approve annexing the Butler School District to the Arapaho School District | Approved
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| Bridge Creek Schools | BI | New High School Bond Issue | Would authorize a $9.685 bond issue for a new high school | Approved
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| Stroud Schools | BI | Gymnasium Bond Issue | Would authorize a $9.5 million bond issue for a new gymnasium | Approved
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| Countywide | LR | Property Tax Increase | Would authorize a 2-mill property tax increase for improvements to the Pioneer Library System | Approved
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| Countywide | BI | Proposition 2 | Would authorize a $10.5 million bond issue for courthouse improvements, including replacing utility systems | Approved
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| Countywide | BI | Proposition 3 | Would authorize a $5.75 million bond issue for additional storage and management system for county records | Defeated
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| Countywide | BI | Proposition 4 | Would authorize a $7.25 million bond issue for new Oklahoma County OSU Cooperative Extension Service building | Defeated
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| Countywide | BI | Proposition 5 | Would authorize a $6 million bond issue for flood control and countywide flood relief plan | Approved
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| 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
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| Oakdale Schools | BI | Proposition 1 | Would authorize a $2.7 million bond issue for construction of an addition to the middle school | Defeated
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| Oakdale Schools | BI | Proposition 2 | Would authorize a $400,000 bond issue for transportation | Approved
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| City of McAlester | LR | City Charter | Would approve an updated, revised city charter that incorporates all amendments previously adopted | Approved
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| Countywide | LR | Property Tax Increase | Would authorize a 2-mill property tax increase for improvements to the Pioneer Library System | Approved
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| 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
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| Wanette Schools | BI | Proposition 2 | Would authorize a $265,000 transportation bond issue for buses and an agriculture pickup | Approved
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| 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
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| Tulsa Community College | BI | Proposition 2 | Would authorize increasing operating millage from 6 mills to 7.7 mills | Defeated
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| City/District
| Type
| Title
| Description
| Outcome
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| City of Bartlesville | LR | Proposition 1 | Would authorize continuing existing sales tax through June 30, 2014 | Approved
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| City of Bartlesville | BI | Proposition 2 | Would authorize a $8 million bond issue for road construction and improvement | Approved
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| City of Bartlesville | BI | Proposition 3 | Would authorize a $2 million bond issue for constructing and improving the Frontier Pool and Frontier Park | Approved
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