Thumbs down: North Port voters reject all five questions on special election ballot
NORTH PORT – North Port voters turned an emphatic thumbs down to all five referendum questions on the ballot in Tuesday's special election, according to unofficial results from the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Office.
Defeats for four of the five questions asked leaves North Port officials unable to get low-interest loans typically available after a hurricane and uncertain of financing for three major projects – a new police station, a solid waste transfer station and improvements at the wastewater treatment plant on Pan American Boulevard.
North Port Mayor Phil Stokes said the results left him “certainly disappointed but not overly surprised.”
He added that the results also left him “resolved to move the city forward like we always do.”
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