The result stayed the same.

After county officials counted provisional ballots Friday morning, Tuesday’s vote on whether to increase the school district’s local option budget was finalized. The measure passed by 61 votes, 3,819 to 3,758. Of the 62 provisional ballots that counted, yes votes outnumbered no votes 36 to 26.

“Now we’ll be able to move ahead with teacher negotiations and addressing some of the other needs on that list of requests,” school board President Linda Robinson said.

District officials said a 1 percent increase in the LOB would raise about $679,000 from property taxes. The owner of a home valued at $200,000 will pay about $14 more annually.

School board members said they expect to fund salaries and possibly other programs, such as WRAP, which places clinical social workers in some schools.

The election outcome had to wait until Friday morning because 75 provisional ballots were cast on Tuesday – more than the 51 votes by which the measure had appeared to pass, 3,783 to 3,732. The provisional ballots, which were called into question because voters changed their addresses or went to the wrong polling place, were reviewed by county officials.

And on Friday, a three-person panel – County Commissioners Jere McElhaney and Bob Johnson and Register of Deeds of Kay Pesnell – decided 62 provisional votes should be included in the total. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said that of the 13 votes that were rejected, eight were cast by people not registered to vote here. Four voters did not live in the school district, and one was a first-time voter who didn’t show sufficient identification.