Forest Grove Police Station Bond is too close to call
Forest Grove voters were split in their choice of funding a new station for the city's police force Tuesday night, but the nays held a slim early lead in the first results posted at 8 p.m.
10 p.m. update: The 'no' votes edged closer to a victory in the second batch of results posted by the county elections division at 10 p.m., but with 51.08% voting no and 48.92% voting yes, just a 56 vote difference, Measure 34-343 remained too close to call.
Original story:
Forest Grove voters were split in their choice of funding a new station for the city's police force Tuesday night, but the nays held a slim early lead in the first results posted at 8 p.m.
The vote stood at 50.85% voting no to 49.15% voting yes.
The city crafted a bond measure asking voters to approve funds to build a new station at a different location on the same block as the existing station to address a laundry list of issues, including a lack of seismic resilience, a building that doesn't meet accessibility standards, lack of storage space for evidence and records and more.
Chas Hundley
View results online at results.oregonvotes.gov. Additional results from Washington County are expected at 10 p.m.
