Providence voters approved a 515-million-dollar pension obligation bond at a special election on Tuesday.
Only four-percent of the city's roughly 124 thousand voters turned out for the election.
The Rhode Island General Assembly has approved the bond in one chamber so far.
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza proposed the spending since the city currently has an unfunded pension liability of more than one-billion dollars.
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