A sales-tax question was approved by certain voters in Cooper County during the special election on Tuesday, August 6.
According to a release from the Cooper County Clerk’s office which included unofficial numbers, voters in Boonville approved the measure to impose a temporary sales tax of seven-eighths of one percent for the next five years to make capital improvements on the Kemper School Campus in order to provide expanded youth and adult programs through the Boonslick Heartland YMCA at Johnson Field House and Academic Hall; and to provide additional and handicapped-accessible parking for the entire Kemper Campus by a 60-40 margin. The voting was 459 yes and 303 no.
Also, voters in Blackwater gave their approval to a question to authorize the city to forego annual elections if the number of candidates who have filed for a particular office is equal to the number of positions in the office to be filled by the election. That vote was 5-0.
The numbers will be certified at a later date.