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MONROE HIGH SCHOOL
“It’s homecoming week. There is a football game and a big dance, like a prom. Everybody gets dressed up. I found a really pretty dress at the Everett Mall if I go.”
— ALYSIA “LISSY” DANIELS, FRESHMAN
Mukilteo explores levy, bond ballot measures
The Mukilteo School Board is considering a proposal that would ask voters to approve a bond for building and technology improvements and to renew the district’s capital projects levy.
The public can hear details of the proposals at meetings set for 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at Harbour Pointe Middle School, 5000 Harbour Pointe Blvd., Mukilteo, and 7 p.m. Oct. 11 at Voyager Middle School, 11711 Fourth Ave. W., Everett.
The $139.2 million bond package includes renovating Mukilteo and Discovery elementary schools, building a new elementary school near Lake Stickney and heating, electrical and plumbing upgrades at many buildings. It would also provide improvements to learning spaces and athletic facilities, upgrade ACES High School, bolster technology infrastructure and buy land for future needs.
The capital projects levy would replace a voter-approved measure that will expire at the end of 2008. The levy provides money for ongoing facility and technology needs and to make small building improvements.
The school board is expected to act on the proposal in November and put the measures on the ballot in February 2008.
The cost per $1,000 of assessed value for each ballot measure has yet to be determined.
More information about the proposals is available on the school district’s Web site at www.mukilteo.wednet.edu.
Terrace jazz groups plan annual benefit concert
The Mountlake Terrace High School Music Department will have a benefit concert at 7 p.m. Oct. 11 for the Central Asia Institute, which promotes and supports community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in the remote mountain regions of Central Asia.
The concert at the school’s theater, 21801 44th Ave. W., will feature the award-winning Jazz Ensemble 1 and Dynamics Vocal Jazz Ensemble, orchestras and other school music groups. In addition to a financial donation, the audience is encouraged to bring nonperishable food items for the local food bank.
This event is the school’s third annual Music Department benefit concert for the greater community. Previous concerts raised more than $3,400 for the Katrina Musician’s Relief Fund and the Nickel Mines School Victims’ Fund and provided much-needed food for the local food bank.
New road cuts traffic snarl around Kamiak
Relief has come for drivers stuck in traffic congestion that occurs on Harbour Pointe Boulevard each day when Kamiak High School students are dismissed.
A new exit road from the Kamiak parking lot to Chennault Beach Road opened Monday and is expected to greatly reduce traffic at 2 p.m. each school day when school buses, departing students and parents picking up their children all converge at Kamiak at the same time.
The new road will provide students a quicker way to get out of the south parking lot and allows the school to revise traffic patterns so parents will have a faster way to pick up or drop off their children. Parents who currently pick up their children in the circle at the front entrance of Kamiak are instead encouraged to enter the south parking lot, pick up their children near the greenhouse, then continue on the new one-way exit road to Chennault Beach Drive.
Students who park in the back parking student lot at the south end of campus will exit using the new one-way road while those parked in the front lot can either use the new road or exit onto Harbour Pointe Boulevard. Those choosing to exit onto Harbour Pointe Boulevard, however, can only make a right turn onto the street.
Northshore refinancing will trim taxpayers’ bill
Taxpayers will save a collective $235,000 after a Northshore School Board’s decision Sept. 25 to refinance $7 million in outstanding bonds originally issued in 1997.
The dollar savings will not increase district revenues but will lower taxes.
Refinancing bonds is similar to refinancing a home mortgage when interest rates drop. The district was able to take advantage of lower interest rates, in part, because of its strong bond rating.
Four districts join Everett for career, college fair
Everett Public School’s career fair has been so successful over the years that Arlington, Edmonds, Lake Stevens and Mukilteo school districts have joined the team to co-sponsor this year’s event.
This year’s event is set for Oct. 16 and will again take place at Comcast Arena at Everett Events Center from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m.
The career and college fair showcases a variety of post-secondary institutions, including colleges, universities and technical schools, as well as career opportunities that exist in the work world, with a focus on in-demand industries in Snohomish County.
The fair will be divided into marked sections featuring educators, business leaders and training providers in different job markets, including biotechnology, health services, advanced manufacturing, construction and hospitality. Metal street signs will mark paths to each industry sector area as well as to areas to learn about local colleges and career information.
Parents and local residents are also invited to the fair. Go to the Everett School District Career and College Fair Web site at www.everett.k12.wa.us/careerfair to download an event brochure.
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