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1. Replacement Maintenance and Operations Levy – to replace M&O expiring December 31, 2006, local funding equal to 19% of the district’s operating budget. 2. School Bus Levy – funding to buy 52 school buses over the next four years. These new buses will replace older, less efficient buses that are no longer earning depreciation funding from the state. Because more students are moving into the district, more school buses are needed to transport them to and from school. 3. Capital Levy that covers two district needs: - Funding to maintain technology now used and technology enhancements ensuring that classrooms have equipment that boosts student learning and that district operations are efficient. - Funding for school renovations and critical repairs that improve student health, safety, and welfare, maintain schools and playfields for community use, and increase energy efficiency. 4. Capital bond to add classroom space for additional students and to maintain equity across the district, rebuild two aging and inefficient buildings, buy land and fund construction of a fifth middle school to reduce overcrowding at the existing four middle schools, buy land on the plateau for a 15th elementary school and buy land in the Liberty High attendance area that could site a new elementary school and middle school in that growing section of the District. Detailed information on each of these ballot issues can be found on the Issaquah School District website: www.issaquah.wednet.edu/board/bondlevy06.asp If you have any questions, please contact your school’s Principal, PTSA, or VIS representative, Deborah Parsons, at deborah@theparsons.com. |