Marked ballots are due Tuesday in special elections for school district levies.
Four public school districts in East Jefferson County — Port Townsend, Chimacum, Quilcene and Brinnon — and one in West Jefferson County — Queets Clearwater — are asking voters to approve property tax levies.
The Crescent School District in Joyce is the lone district requesting a levy in Clallam County.
Ballots must be postmarked by Tuesday or placed in an official drop box by 8 p.m. that day.
In Jefferson County, marked ballots can be mailed or returned to the Auditor’s Office in the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St., Port Townsend, or dropped into a box in the back parking lot of the courthouse or in the parking lot of the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave., Port Hadlock.
In Clallam County, ballots that aren’t mailed can be hand-delivered to the drop box by 8 p.m. or to the Auditor’s Office at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., during regular business hours.
No elections are countywide. Ballots were mailed to registered voters in individual districts. Since then, some replacement ballots have been issued.
On the North Olympic Peninsula, the Crescent, Quilcene, Brinnon and Queets Clearwater public school districts seek maintenance and operations levies that support school programs, while the Port Townsend and Chimacum districts are asking for new capital levies to replace facilities.
Here are details about the proposed levies:
■ The Crescent School District is requesting voters approve a four-year, $495,713 maintenance and operation expenses replacement levy.
The estimated levy rate would be $1.615 per $1,000 assessed value, or $323 per year for a $200,000 home.
The Crescent School District website is at www.
crescentschooldistrict.org.
■ The Port Townsend School District is asking for a four-year capital levy, a replacement levy that would generate $1,181,500 each year.
The estimated amount per $1,000 assessed value the levy would cost property owners is 51 cents the first year and 58 cents each of the following years.
Information about Port Townsend is available at http://tinyurl.com/2c3yft5.
■ The Chimacum School district is requesting approval of a six-year capital projects levy that would raise $1,325,000 each year for a total of $7,950,000. It is a replacement levy.
The estimated amount per $1,000 assessed value the levy would cost property owners is, in order from 2013 to 2018, 81 cents, 80 cents, 84 cents, 83 cents, 83 cents and 82 cents.
Chimacum’s site is at www.csd49.org.
■ The Quilcene School District is asking voters to approve a four-year maintenance and operations replacement levy that would collect $495,500 its first year and increase to $540,095 the fourth year.
The estimated amount per $1,000 assessed value the levy would cost property owners is, in order from 2012-2013 through 2015-2016, $1.46 the first year, $1.51 the second year, $1.55 the third year and $1.60 the fourth year.
Quilcene has posted information at http://tinyurl.com/7a4srau.
■ The Brinnon School District seeks a two-year property tax levy that would raise $239,653 the first year and $299,526 the second year.
The estimated amount per $1,000 assessed value the levy would cost property owners is $1.08 in 2013 and $1.10 in 2014.
Brinnon has posted information at www.bsd46.org.
■ The Queets Clearwater School District in the West End is requesting a three-year, $75,000 educational program and program replacement levy.
For information about the Clallam County election, phone 360-417-2217, visit www.clallam.net/elections or go to the Auditor’s Office.
For more information about the Jefferson County election, phone 360-385-9119 or email karenc@co.jefferson.wa.us.
