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5 <br />within three days after the Board meeting. <br />We can arrange the schedule to have the public hearing at a meeting before <br />the Board takes final action on the Bond Orders and ballot questions. For <br />absentee ballots to be available by March 17, an early March Board meeting is just <br />about as late as we can go for the final Board action. <br />The adoption of the bond order establishes the final amount of bonds that <br />will go before the voters. There is never any obligation in fact to issue any or all of <br />the bonds approved at a referendum. <br />13. Publish Bond Order as Adopted. This should be done as soon as <br />possible after the Bond Order is adopted. There is no particular deadline for <br />publishing this notice, but the notice starts a 30 -day period for court challenges to <br />the authorization process that must lapse before any bonds can be issued. <br />14. Publish Notice of Bond Referendum. This notice must be <br />published twice, once not less than 14 days and once not less than 7 days before <br />the close of voter registration. State law permits registration until the 25th day <br />prior to the election date. That puts the date registration closes at April 11 for a <br />referendum on May 6. The first publication, then, needs to be at least 14 days <br />earlier, or on or before March 28, and the second publication no more than one <br />week later (by April 4). I would certainly encourage you, however, to plan to <br />publish at least a week before the final legal date, in order to leave time to re- <br />publish in case of any problems with publication. <br />I have attached schedules in table form for elections in both May 2014 and <br />November 2014. These tables summarize the steps that have been described in <br />more detail above. <br />Once the voters have approved the bonds, you are looking at a minimum of <br />90 to 120 days to get through the process to actually issue bonds. The County <br />Board must adopt a resolution to formally approve the election results, and the <br />County must publish a notice of the results that triggers a 30 -day period during <br />which people can bring legal challenges to the bond election process. Then, to <br />approve the issuance of bonds takes only one more Board resolution, with no other <br />