A new Collin College campus in Anna was one of the projects riding on Proposition A, and voters across the college district said no to it on Tuesday.
The $600 million bond drew 200,854 votes in favor and 221,774 against, or 47.52% to 52.48%, in Collin County's unofficial summary posted at 1:02 a.m. Wednesday with all 90 vote centers reporting. That is a gap of 20,920 votes.
What the bond would have built
Trustees voted unanimously on Aug. 7 to call the election, which covered the second and third phases of Destination 2030, the long-range facilities plan the college adopted in 2023, The Sachse News reported in October.
The second phase covered new or larger buildings for job training and academics on the McKinney, Wylie, Celina and Allen Technical campuses and at the Courtyard Center in Plano, along with a McKinney aviation academy.
The third added room for health sciences in Frisco, more job-training space in Wylie, a Farmersville workforce building, and two campuses that do not exist yet, in Anna and Royse City.
The college had said the bond was not expected to raise its property tax rate, which has been $0.08122 per $100 of value since 2018. It cited a rise of more than 31% in credit enrollment over the past decade as the reason for the request.
Voters approved an earlier $600 million Collin College bond in 2017, which paid for projects including the Wylie, Celina and Farmersville campuses and the Technical Campus in Allen.
