Levies Do Well In Whitman County
Whitman County voters passed all the measures on the ballot in six towns Tuesday.
The Colton School District’s $291,947 maintenance and operations levy passed with 83 percent approval.
Voters in the Lamont School District passed two levies, a two-year maintenance and operations levy of $62,000 each year and a two-year capital improvements levy of $36,000 each year. The measures passed with 73 and 68 percent approval.
The Rosalia School District’s two-year maintenance and operations levy of $355,000 each year also passed, with 68 percent approval.
In Garfield, the parks and recreation district’s $32,000 capital outlay levy passed with 82 percent approval, and voters in Oakesdale and St. John overwhelmingly passed levies for each town’s cemetery district.
Most school operating levies in Lincoln County were approved Tuesday, and the Colville and Selkirk levies in Stevens and Pend Oreille counties passed with strong majorities.
Some levy results in Stevens County weren’t available, but the Colville, Chewelah, Kettle Falls, Valley and Mary Walker levies all passed in unofficial final returns. The Summit Valley levy failed.
Here are the results, with percentages in parentheses:
Colville, 1,932-984 (66.3 percent); Chewelah, 377-206 (64.7 percent); Kettle Falls, 415-216 (65.8 percent); Valley, 183-55 (76.9 percent); Summit Valley, 60-44 (57.7 percent); Mary Walker, 245-129 (65.5 percent).
The Selkirk School District had the only levy on the ballot in Pend Oreille County. It passed with almost 66 percent support, 458-236.
The Reardan-Edwall School District was barely passing with a 60.4 percent approval rate. However, it was too close to call because of outstanding absentee ballots.
In other Lincoln County results, a $469,000 bond measure to reroof two schools in the Wilbur School District had 63.8 percent support, 342-194. It also needed 60 percent to pass. The district’s separate operating levy passed with a 62.6 percent majority, 343-205.
Also in Lincoln County, the Sprague and Harrington levies passed while the Creston levy failed. The Harrington levy had 80 percent support, 196-49, while the Sprague levy passed with a 68.5 percent majority, 111-51. Creston’s levy fell short with 57.8 percent support, 218-159.