School Levies Ballot Complex
Whitepine voters will face a complex ballot Tuesday of supplemental levies, plant facilities levies and a deconsolidation study.
The largest item is a supplemental levy for $1,109,722 to maintain existing district programs. Voters will also have to decide a $244,500 plant facilities levy that will largely fund repairs at the nearly century-old Troy Junior-Senior High School.
Also on the ballot is a request for $35,000 to study whether to split the district in two. Finally, voters will be asked to approve a $30,000 levy to replace a bus.
“This in my mind is the most critical vote for the education of this district that’s ever been taken,” Superintendent Harold Ott said.
Polls will be open from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Troy Junior-Senior High School, Deary School, Bovill Elementary School and the Elk River Community Center.
In Lakeland, residents can vote on a $28,000 levy to pay for activity busses. Polls will be open from noon to 8 p.m. at Athol, Spirit Lake, Garwood, John Brown and Betty Kiefer elementary schools, Twin Lakes and Hauser Lake fire departments, and the Bayview Community Center.
In Coeur d’Alene, voters will be asked to approve a $3.39 million maintenance and operations levy. The two-year levy will help meet increased enrollment needs and will maintain and improve current programs and student-teacher ratios, according to district officials.
The levy replaces a $2.97 million levy expiring this spring, and would cost taxpayers with a $100,000 home an extra 58 cents a month, according to the district.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at all Coeur d’Alene schools and at Kootenai Medical Center and North Idaho College.
The Genessee Joint School District 282 will hold a supplemental levy election for $230,142 to maintain the majority of the district’s current programs and services, meet accreditation standards, implement federal and state mandates and adjust for inflation.
The levy, if passed, would cost taxpayers $2.03 per $1,000 of assessed value, which represents an actual decrease in the tax rate. In Kendrick, voters are being asked to approve a $220,000 maintenance and operations supplemental levy election, the same amount that the district has had for five years. There are no contested trustee elections.
Potlatch voters will be faced with two school measures. District officials hope to pass a $469,000 maintenance and operations levy and a $88,000 plant facilities levy for expansion, repair, and a new bus.
Staff writer Andrea Vogt contributed to this report