Highway District delivers on promise to Ada County voters | Transportation | Idaho Statesman
Grade school students living in Eagle’s Brookwood subdivision have just a short walk from their neighborhood to Eagle Hills Elementary. But the required dash across Floating Feather Road was too risky. To keep the students safe, the school had to bus the kids the short distance.
“It was too much to ask the kids to get across without some kind of safety device,” Eagle Hills Principal Jason Leforgee said.
Now, thanks to Ada County voters, the kids can safely cross the street, and the school no longer has to pay to bus the students the short distance.
Fall 2008 was a politically and economically tough time, but when the Ada County Highway District asked for the increase, voters responded by passing the vehicle registration fee increase with a 67 percent majority — a two-thirds super-majority for a fee that needed only a simple majority to pass.
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