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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
SPRAGUE—The school district here needs funds to continue providing the services it presently does, and is counting on the will of the voters to provide that money through a replacement levy on the ballot in the Feb. 14 special election.
The two-year levy will collect $215,000 each in 2024 and 2025, which is an increase from the $195,000 being collected annually on the present levy. However, the district projects the individual estimated levy rate will be decreased due to an increase of property ownership in the district.
“The assessed value is going to go down,” superintendent Ray Leaver said.
The present estimated levy rate is $1.68 per $1,000 of assessed property value. That rate would decrease to an estimated $1.51 in 2024 and $1.43 in 2025.
A property owner with an assessed value of $300,000 would be charged $453 in 2024 and $429 in 2025.
“In the past two years we’ve received some COVID money, but that’s going away,” Leaver said. “This will help support some additional counseling services we added in the last two years.”
The levy will also potentially fund advanced building security measures, including cameras, and will add funds to help with staffing, athletics and other extracurricular activities.
“We really rely on this levy to offset all these things,” Leaver said.
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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