Votes weren’t made official until after the deadline for this issue, but Northshore School District leaders are not wasting any time in acting on the apparent voter approval of a $149 million bond sale.

Residents may have noticed construction equipment gathering around the district’s Pop Keeney Field in Bothell. District spokesperson Leanna Albrecht said the work under way will help satisfy an agreement with the city of Bothell, as well as put in place improvements that were part of the bond package sold voters.

According to unofficial results from King and Snohomish county election officials, the bond is passing along with two replacement levy issues.

The latest numbers available before deadline for this issue have the district’s $169 million operating levy passing 18,682 to 9,145. A much smaller $24 million technology levy is winning approval 17,763 to 9,187.

The figures for both levies combine numbers from King and Snohomish counties.

Regarding the bond, in King, voters are approving the bond sale 11,029 to 6,162, or 62.4 to 37.6 percent. In Snohomish, voters are giving thumbs up to the bond issue 5,624 to 3,489, or 61.7 to 38.2 percent.

The bond sale ultimately must receive approval by a super majority of 60 percent or better of all voters.

School officials have said the operating levy represents 20 percent of the district’s budget. Proceeds will be used for various day-to-day costs of the schools. Beginning in 2011, when both levies take effect, the technology levy will begin helping place new electronics, such as computers and whiteboards, into classrooms around the district.

As for the Pop Keeney improvements, Albrecht said district construction of a parking lot adjacent to the field was part of last year’s sale agreement that turned 18 acres of largely undeveloped property south of Pop Keeney over to Bothell.

After protracted negotiations, the city and the district decided, a year ago this month, on a $20.6 million price tag for the property along Bothell Way Northeast. Bothell officials intend to use the land as part of their well-advertised plans to revise the city’s downtown, targeting the former school property for mixed residential/retail development.

While the parking lot near Keeney is still under construction, workers have already removed the visitors’ bleachers from near the field, as well as some concession stands. The bond passage will fund removal of the old structures, along with their replacements, Albrecht said.

Additionally, the bond will pay for renovations to the field itself and allow for some new lighting.

Albrecht said the district may seem to have worked fast, but added officials had design plans for the work in and around the field completed and ready prior to passage of the bond. She noted the parking work had to proceed regardless of the outcome of the election.

As for replacement of those bleachers, Albrecht said construction should begin in the next few weeks.