Two Clark County college districts are returning to voters April 22 to hunt approval for levies that failed in February.
Hockinson’s 21-year, $87 million bond obtained 53.08 p.c approval Feb. 11, in need of the 60 p.c supermajority required to go. The district revised its request and now could be in search of a six-year, $12.735 million college security and safety capital levy.
Battle Floor is returning to voters with the identical four-year, $166.3 million levy that failed in February by 60 votes.
Levies require a easy majority to go and are one to 6 years in size. Bonds are repaid with property taxes over as many as 40 years and have to be authorized by a 60 p.c supermajority.
Hockinson district
Hockinson residents’ 2025 tax price for the present bond and operations levy is $3.05 per $1,000 of assessed property worth. Subsequent yr, if the capital levy is authorized, the tax price would stay $3.05 (66 cents for the capital levy, $1.69 for the operations levy and 70 cents for the bond), based on the district’s web site.
The proprietor of a $500,000 house would pay $1,525 in annual property taxes in 2026, if the capital levy is authorized.
Hockinson’s subsequent levy Q&A dialog is 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hockinson Heights Elementary College Library, 20000 N.E. 164th St., Brush Prairie.
Battle Floor district
Battle Floor’s alternative levy would proceed to fund pupil academic packages and operations bills not funded by the state, together with pupil security, tutorial and assist workers, small lessons, curriculum and nursing, based on the district’s web site.
The four-year levy would substitute the present operations levy, which ends in 2025. The brand new levy would start collections in 2026 and lift about $166.3 million with an estimated tax price of $1.95 per $1,000 of assessed property worth annually, 27 cents greater than the expiring training and operations price of $1.68.
If the alternative levy is authorized, the proprietor of a $500,000 house would pay an estimated $1,210 in annual property taxes in 2026, together with the present three-year expertise capital levy price of 47 cents per $1,000 of assessed property worth. Voters authorized the capital levy in February 2024.
