Owatonna voters reject police, fire station referendum

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The fire station in Owatonna, about 70 miles south of the Twin Cities, is 120 years old and in disrepair. The police work out of an old bank building. But on Tuesday, the city's voters overwhelmingly rejected a $65 million capital bond referendum to replace them with new stations

An overwhelming majority of voters in Owatonna rejected a $65 million capital bond referendum on Tuesday’s ballot that would’ve funded new police and fire stations.

About 77 percent of voters said “no” to the measure to raise their property taxes to pay off bonds that would raise the money needed to replace the city’s aging fire and police stations.