CLALLAM BAY –– The Cape Flattery School District’s request for a four-year $375,000 maintenance-and-operations levy appears headed for passage.
In initial returns Tuesday night from the all-mail election, voters gave 73 percent approval to the district’s funding request.
The district includes schools in Clallam Bay-Sekiu and Neah Bay.
Tuesday’s count included 301 of the 1,140 ballots mailed to registered voters in the district, a 26 percent turnout, with 220 voting for the levy and 81 voting against it.
Tuesday’s count included ballots received by the elections departments through Election Day.
Those mailed or dropped off in ballot drop boxes in Sequim and Port Angeles on Tuesday will be included in the next count, expected to be finished by 4:30 p.m. Friday, election official Shannon Cosgrove said.
The levy is a $25,000 increase from the 2012-14 maintenance and operations levy of $350,000 that expires in December.
It will tax property owners in the district at an estimated $2.99 per $1,000 valuation from 2014-15 through 2017-18.
The measure was placed on the ballot to pay for such services as a school nurse, building maintenance, technology purchases and updates, school bus transportation, library staff and resources, textbooks and supplies, student counseling services and the food program, district officials said.
