Initial unofficial results indicate that voters in El Paso County are in favor of new investments for Academy School District 20 and Harrison School District 2 while Woodland Park voters are opting to keep a current funding mechanism for their school district in place.

For voters residing in Academy School District 20, early results show voters approving ballot measure 4B by 57.53% and 42.47% opposing it. The measure would add $83 million in bond funding for capital projects throughout the district. $49 million will go toward rebuilding Air Academy High School. And $23 million of the bond will update facilities in all non-charter schools in the district — $9.48 million for capital improvement at The Classical Academy charter school and $1.66 million at New Summit Charter Academy.

The new bond does not create new taxes, but will extend the current tax rate. Among the projects would be LED lighting upgrades in all district schools to comply with mandatory lighting requirements recently signed into state law.

Unlike the D-20 question, the 4A ballot measure will increase local property taxes for Harrison School District 2 voters to add $9 million annually to the district’s general fund. Unofficial results reported by El Paso County had 54.80% in favor of the mill levy and 45.20% opposed.

The new funding would specifically go toward increasing teachers’ salaries, sustaining D-2’s scholarship program for two years of free college at Pikes Peak State College and improvements to the district’s charter schools.

“I’m so proud of our community for sending a message that they trust and believe in our schools and we look forward to celebrating this with them,” Superintendent Wendy Birhanzel said following the early results Tuesday night.

In Teller County, unofficial results have 56.37% of voters against repealing a 1.09% local sales tax currently in place for Woodland Park School District funding and 43.63% in favor of losing the tax.

Revenue from the tax has averaged about 11% of the district’s total budget, or approximately $3 million since the intergovernmental agreement with Woodland Park’s city council was first approved in 2016. City council voted to put the tax’s continuation on the ballot this year following discussions for more financial transparency and accountability by the school district.

Woodland Park Public Schools board president Mick Bates said he was “very encouraged” by the initial results.

“If we were to lose this $3.2 million, it would have been devastating to us,” he said.

In eastern El Paso County, voters residing in Calhan School District RJ-1’s voted against a measure that would allow board of education members to hold their position for more than two consecutive terms. Early unofficial results show 74.28% of voters against the measure and 25.72% in favor.