Northshore’s Bond/Levy Measures Go To Voters In Mid-January!
START ASKING YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND NEIGHBORS
TO CONTINUE THEIR SUPPORT FOR OUR COMMUNITY’S SCHOOLS & KIDS!
Northshore School District will have three propositions on the ballot for the February 9, 2010, election to continue support for student learning:
Capital Projects Bond
Renewal Education Operations Support Levy
Renewal School Technology Levy
NESPA, NSEA, AND NEOPA are 100% behind all of them. Together, these measures support student learning. Your support and help is needed to ensure their passage by the voters in January.
The Capital Projects Bond would continue the District's long-term facilities plan to maintain and renovate aging schools and provide key infrastructure support for classroom learning. The Renewal Education Operations Support Levy would renew an expiring levy that provides 20% of the district's budget for daily operations and educational programs. The Renewal School Technology Levy would renew an expiring levy to continue to provide technology and training to enhance classroom learning.
Details here: This is an all-mail election. Ballots will be mailed out to voters by January 22 and must be returned by February 9 (Election Day).
Passage of these measures is essential to the economic health of our district and to us as professionals. The Operations Support Levy pays for many of our jobs. The Technology Levy pays for school computers. Adequate heat and air quality, and a pleasant work/learning environment, depend on the Capital Projects Bond.
The levy/bond campaign and NESPA, NEOPA, AND NSEA will be asking every school to send volunteers—staff, parents, booster clubs—to make phone calls to voters beginning January 4. Please sign up when asked by an Association Leader. Calls will be made from the NESPA/NSEA/WEA Office in Bothell.
Because of our successful collective efforts to modify the State Constitution by a vote in 2007, only 50% plus one (instead of 60% plus one) is needed to pass the Operations and Tech Levies. But 60% plus one is needed on the Capital Bond. Despite the bad economy, we will win this if we communicate the need to the voters.
