Voters in seven Clark County faculty districts will forged ballots Feb. 11 on levies and bonds.
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 should be authorized by a 60 % vote.
Districts are searching for two sorts of levies. Academic packages and operations levies fund lecturers, assist employees, provides and supplies, or providers that the state solely partially funds. Know-how, security and capital levies pay for renovations together with know-how and security enhancements.
Vancouver Public Colleges
Vancouver’s board determined in November to place a six-year alternative levy for know-how, security and capital initiatives on the poll.
The levy would go into impact in January 2026 to interchange the present know-how capital levy, which expires on the finish of 2025.
Know-how levy charges vary from 29 to 38 cents with a complete assortment of about $83 million over six years.
The anticipated levy charges enhance every year, besides from 2028 to 2031. Property homeowners paid 28 cents per $1,000 of assessed property worth in 2024 for the prevailing know-how levy and $3.36 total for Vancouver faculties.
The district’s total tax charges per $1,000 of assessed property worth are anticipated to lower after 2026, when the proprietor of a $500,000 residence would pay $1,770:
2026: $3.54 (29 cents for the capital levy, $1.14 for current bonds, $2.11 for the operations levy)
2027: $3.43 (36 cents for the capital levy, 94 cents for current bonds, $2.13 for the operations levy)
2028-2031: $3.26 (38 cents for the capital levy, 75 cents for the prevailing bonds, $2.13 for the operations levy)
Evergreen Public Colleges
Evergreen’s board voted in November to position two four-year levies — one for operations and the opposite for know-how — on the poll to interchange current levies that expire on the finish of 2025.
The operational levy would substitute a three-year levy authorized by voters in 2022 and lift a complete of about $288.9 million over 4 years. Taxpayers are anticipated to pay a spread from $2.02 to $2.35 per $1,000 of assessed property worth.
The know-how levy, which might increase a complete of about $50.5 million over 4 years, replaces a six-year levy authorized by voters in 2019. The brand new levy charges vary from 36 cents to 40 cents per $1,000 of assessed property worth.
With the 2 levies and Evergreen’s 2018 bond, which paid for the alternative of a number of faculties and development of a brand new district headquarters, householders are anticipated to pay an estimated $4.03 per $1,000 of assessed property worth in 2026, about $2,015 per 12 months for a $500,000 home. Estimated whole charges per $1,000 assessed property worth for the subsequent 4 years are:
2026: $4.03 ($2.75 levies, $1.28 bond)
2027: $3.85 ($2.59 levies, $1.26 bond)
2028: $3.71 ($2.47 levies, $1.24 bond)
2029: $3.59 ($2.38 levies, $1.21 bond)
Owners in 2024 paid $3.57 per $1,000 of assessed property worth — $1.59 for the prevailing operations levy, 39 cents for the prevailing tech levy and $1.59 for the 2018 bond measure. That’s about $1,785 for a $500,000 home.
The final time Evergreen sought a alternative levy, it took two tries to go.
Battle Floor Public Colleges
Battle Floor’s board positioned an academic packages and operations alternative levy on the poll.
The four-year levy would substitute the prevailing operations levy, which ends in 2025. The brand new levy would start collections in 2026 and lift about $166.3 million over 4 years with an estimated tax charge of $1.95 per $1,000 of assessed property worth every year.
Owners in 2024 paid $1.65 per $1,000 of assessed property worth for the prevailing operations levy, which voters authorized in 2022. In 2025, they may pay $1.68 per $1,000 of assessed property worth for that operations levy, in addition to a further 46 cents per $1,000 of assessed property worth for a three-year know-how capital levy authorized by voters in February 2024.
If the alternative levy is authorized, the proprietor of a $500,000 residence would pay an estimated $1,205 in annual property taxes, together with the prevailing capital levy.
Ridgefield Faculty District
Ridgefield’s faculty board voted unanimously in December to position two three-year levies on the poll after six consecutive failed bond makes an attempt since 2019.
The alternative operations levy would gather a complete of $44 million from 2026 to 2028, with an estimated tax charge of $1.75 per $1,000 of assessed property worth.
The capital initiatives and know-how levy would gather $21.2 million over the identical interval. The projected capital levy charge could be 84 cents per $1,000 of assessed property worth.
If authorized, the levies would go into impact in January 2026 for a mixed tax charge of $2.58 per $1,000 of assessed property worth. The proprietor of a $500,000 home would pay an estimated $1,290 in property taxes that 12 months. The price consists of the prevailing 2012 and 2017 current bonds.
This 12 months, the property tax charge for Ridgefield faculties was $2.53, which incorporates the present operations levy and current bonds, and homeowners of a $500,000 residence paid $1,265.
Hockinson Faculty District
Hockinson’s board has a 21-year, $87 million bond on the poll.
The district’s present bond will lower in 2026 to 69 cents per $1,000 of assessed property worth. If the brand new bond is authorized, it could add $1.34 for a complete of $2.03 per $1,000 of assessed property worth, based on the district’s web site. The proprietor of a $500,000 residence would pay $1,015 per 12 months.
Prior to now 20 years, solely two Hockinson Faculty District bonds have handed. A 2003 bond funded development of Hockinson Excessive Faculty. Earlier than then, solely the elementary and center faculties existed, and ninth-graders moved on to excessive faculties outdoors of the district. Extra lately, a 2015 bond allowed the district to construct a brand new Hockinson Center Faculty.
La Middle Faculty District
La Middle’s board positioned a three-year academic packages and operations levy on the poll to interchange the earlier authorized levy that expires on the finish of 2025. Collections would begin in 2026 if authorized.
The tax charge would stay at $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed property worth for all three years, or $750 a 12 months for the proprietor of a $500,000 residence. Over the three years, the district will gather about $12 million.
Mount Nice Faculty District
Mount Nice’s board positioned a three-year upkeep and operation levy of $195,000 per 12 months of assortment on the poll.
The projected tax charges vary from $1.79 to $2.13 per $1,000 of assessed property worth.