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Today is the last chance to have a say in separate property tax levy requests from the Port Angeles and Quillayute Valley school districts.
Ballots must be postmarked by today or left in drop boxes tonight to be counted in the all-mail election, voting in which began Jan. 19.
Only voters in the Port Angeles and the Forks-based Quillayute Valley districts are voting.
Of the 18,854 ballots sent out in the all-mail election in the Port Angeles School District, a total of 7,876 — or 41.77 percent — had been returned by Monday, according to the Clallam County Auditor’s Office.
In the Quillayute Valley School District, a total of 1,075 — or 35.67 percent — of the 3,014 ballots distributed to Clallam County voters had been returned by Monday.
A total of 142 Quillayute school district voters reside in Jefferson County, and 42 — or 29.5 percent — had returned ballots by Monday, the Jefferson County Auditor’s Office reported in Port Townsend.
Clallam County Auditor Patty Rosand said she expects to count all the ballots received through Monday at tonight’s count, shortly after the 8 p.m. closing time.
Ballots received today and those in the mail throughout the rest of the week will be counted on Friday by 4 p.m., she said.
Hand-delivered ballots can be taken to the Auditor’s Office at the Clallam County Courthouse at 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles, or placed in drop boxes.
Drop boxes for this election are located at the courthouse — a drive-up box on Fourth Street — and in the Forks District Court lobby, 502 E. Division St., Forks.
Voters can visit www.clallam.net/elections and use the “My Vote” icon to see if their ballots have been returned.
In Port Angeles, voters will decide the fate of a four-year levy request that would collect about $8.2 million with an estimated tax rate of $2.65 per $1,000 assessed valuation.
That means that the owner of a $200,000 home in Port Angeles would pay $530 a year in property taxes to the school district.
In Forks, the levy amount was increased by about $60,000 per year in order to bring revenue up to the level that would get the most state-matching dollars, Quillayute Valley School District Superintendent Diana Reaume said.
The two-year levy would bring in $626,348 each year with an estimated tax rate of $1.41 per $1,000 assessed valuation.
That means that the owner of a $200,000 home would pay about $282 per year in property taxes.
In Jefferson County, voters countywide are being asked to approve a sales tax increase of 0.3 percent — bringing the tax rate up to 9 percent — to maintain bus transit services, as well as property tax levies in the Port Townsend and Chimacum school districts.
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Reporter Paige Dickerson can be reached at 360-417-3535 or at paige.dickerson@peninsuladailynews.com.
