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School levies in Snohomish County all passing, Marysville bond failing A bond measure to replace three aging schools in Marysville was failing with the initial results in Tuesday's elections and a bond measure for the Northshore School District was too close to call.Voters, however, were approving operations levies in the Edmonds, Everett, Lake Stevens, Marysville, Mukilteo, North Shore, Snohomish and Sultan school districts. Levies need a simple majority to pass; bonds require 60 percent of the vote count to be approved. |
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I don't know why or how these liberals keep throwing money on such incompetent educators. Grades keep going down and we're concerned about new buildings going up. Has anyone every been to the North Shore school district and counted the number of people there that DON'T teach or need to be there!
John Pyktel | Feb 12, 2010 3:33 am | 0 replies | Request removal
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I received a post card from the school district explaining why this levy is so important. Among other projects, funds from this levy are used to support the Sultan Unicyle Team. Is this a responsible way to use our educational tax dollars?
Mike Chandler | Feb 10, 2010 9:27 pm | 0 replies | Request removal
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I'm glad to see that the voters see the values in educating our schools.
David Everett | Feb 9, 2010 10:28 pm | 1 replies | Request removal
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The school district needs to cut back and budget like everyone else. There are a lot of people out of work. Do not just raise taxes. Sounds like a liberal thing.
Rob Henderson | Feb 10, 2010 4:13 pm | Request removal
Hold on to your wallet if your a property owner! Personally only property owners should be able to vote for these since it is only property owners that are effected.
Grumpa | Feb 9, 2010 8:38 pm | 4 replies | Request removal
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Actually, I use to think the same thing however i have friends who manage apartments and part of the rent for the apartments goes to property taxes (based on the entire apartment complex). So you DON'T need to be a homeowner to pay property taxes that go to the schools. It's just rolled into one large payment.
j m | Feb 09, 2010 9:17 pm | Request removal
No need to hold on to your wallets either. These levies end up replacing existing levies and the new levies are smaller than the previous ones. resulting in a net reduction in the costs to the tax payers. So we will be paying less not more, please get your facts straight before making baseless claims next time.
Mike None | Feb 09, 2010 9:24 pm | Request removal
Mike None said: So we will be paying less not more, please get your facts straight before making baseless claims next time.
Well the fact is Mike that most of our property taxes go to schools and I can post that well known statistic in graph form for you if you want. The fact is we pay way too much for nothing. It does not matter that the tax will be reduced by some faction of a percent. The fact is that I personally have run out of money to give to a broken system.
Grumpa | Feb 09, 2010 9:55 pm | Request removal
So your solution to fix this "broken system" is to cut back on their budget? That makes a lot of sense...
Jason O | Feb 10, 2010 6:23 am | Request removal