In two nail-biting elections, one Santa Cruz Mountains school district narrowly passed its parcel tax, while a neighboring district lost its bid by just over 1 percent, according to official final results.
The Lakeside Joint School District's Measure C won 517 yes votes, or 67.23 percent of the 769 votes cast.
The Loma Prieta Joint Union School District's Measure G got 1,008 yes votes, or 65.45 percent of the 1,540 votes cast. Both measures needed two-thirds approval to pass.
Both districts were seeking to boost local revenues to backfill against state cuts. The districts, which include large, sparsely populated areas covering both Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, conducted their elections by mail.
Lakeside has fewer than 100 students, while Loma Prieta has about 400.
Both Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties posted official final results Thursday. On Wednesday, the Santa Cruz County voter registrar had encountered a software glitch that delayed the counting of provisional ballots, County Clerk Gail Pellerin said, but that was resolved the next day.
Lakeside Superintendent Bob Chrisman, who spent two anxious days waiting for returns on the district's $311-per-