Early voting begins Tuesday for the Sept. 15 school election in three of the four school districts in Pulaski County.
In North Little Rock and in the new Jacksonville/North Pulaski school districts, voters will select School Board members and act on current property tax rates in early voting and on election day.
In the state-controlled Little Rock School District, residents can vote only on the district's current 46.4-mill property tax during early voting. The Little Rock district's elected school board was dissolved by the Arkansas Board of Education in January as part of the process of taking over the district because six of the district's 48 schools had been classified by the state as academically distressed.
The Pulaski County Special District, which has been operating under state control and without an elected school board since June 2011, will have no election at all this month, not even on its current property tax rate. That is because the Pulaski County Special district had a special election in May on a proposed tax increase. Even though the proposed increase was rejected, the special election fulfilled the district's legal obligation to have an annual tax election.
Early voting on candidates and/or existing tax rates can be done at three locations this year.
Early voting will be from 8 a.m to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and on Sept. 14 in the Pulaski County Regional Building at 501 W. Markham St. in Little Rock.
Early voting can also be done from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday in the William F. Laman Library at 2801 Orange St. in North Little Rock.
In Jacksonville, early voting can be done from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday in the Jacksonville Community Center at 5 Municipal Drive.
In the Little Rock School District, those who wish to vote on the current millage rate must do so by absentee or early voting. No polling places will be open in the Little Rock district on election day.
No polling places will be open in the Pulaski County Special School District on election day.
In the North Little Rock School District -- where three School Board seats are up for election but only one is contested -- voters may vote early or on election day. Voters who live in zones with no contested board races will likely be assigned different polling places for this election rather than their standard polling places.
Polling places will be open on election day, Sept. 15, throughout the new Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District.
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