White Salmon Schools

Levy Results

School District Maintenance and Operations Levy Passes: THANK YOU VOTERS!

February 7, 2006, the White Salmon Valley School District ran a two-year "REPLACEMENT" Maintenance and Operations Levy. Thanks to our voters the levy passed with 62.64% of the voters approving this important levy. In Washington State school levies and bonds must receive a super majority of 60% or better in order to pass.

This replacement levy was for a total of $1,675,000 each year for two years, 2007-2008 and 2008-2009. Monies will begin to be collected beginning in April of 2007. Levy funds help pay for some of the fundamental tools of our educational programs such as: staffing, increased utility costs, increased fuel costs, teaching supplies, textbooks, library books, transportation, extracurricular programs, and a portion of our after-school programs.

The levy amount demonstrated a $250,000 increase over the prior levy that expires in December of 2006. The increase will cover a $90,000 loss of state funding (due to declining enrollment), $50,000 for security systems in all three of our schools, $30,000 for restoration of our technology budget, $30,000 to maintain the Park Center building that the City of White Salmon deeded back to the school district on Monday, March 6, 2006, $25,000 to re-establish the Teaching Acceptable Skills to Kids (TASK) room at Henkle Middle School, $15,000 to cover the costs of inflation, and $10,000 to purchase new field maintenance equipment.

Thank you very much for supporting the students of our community!

For more details about the way our district uses the money it collects, and other information about the recent levy, see our Levy 2006 page.

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