It’s official: Voters in the Basehor-Linwood school district have approved a $39.9 million school bond proposal.

Leavenworth County commissioners, sitting as the board of canvassers, on Monday accepted 40 of 47 provisional ballots in the election mail-in election, which ended Thursday. Of those, 28 were for the bond issue and 12 were against. Those votes put the final tally at 2,209 for the bond issue vs. 2,180 against.

Approval of the bond issue allows the district to construct an elementary school, costing $11.45 million; a middle school at $24.8 million; six additional classrooms and renovations at Glenwood Ridge Elementary School, $2.5 million; renovations at Linwood Elementary, $750,000; and a soccer field, $400,000.

The election was the district’s third school bond referendum in four years. Bond issues in 2003 and 2005 were defeated.