PULLMAN — Pullman Regional Hospital’s $29 million general obligation bonds to fund several hospital projects will be on the April 23 ballot.
The hospital’s board of commissioners voted to approve a resolution to put the measure on the ballot during the special election at its regular meeting Wednesday night.
The measure will ask Pullman residents to vote to approve funding of $29 million general obligation bonds to acquire and implement a communitywide electronic personal health record system, construct a community health facility, acquire new medical technology, redesign and upgrade Pullman Regional Hospital and carry out other capital improvements.
The bond would be financed through a property tax assessment at a proposed rate of 99 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value, which was the same amount approved in 2001 to help finance the construction of the new hospital. Pullman expects to retire the 2001 new hospital bond in 2021.
