Voters in the Port Townsend and Chimacum school districts appear to have passed levy proposals Tuesday night, while a levy in Quilcene was failing by just six votes.
Property tax levy elections require a supermajority of 60 percent to pass. The money collected is used by districts to help fund nearly every aspect of operating schools not covered by state funding.
As of Tuesday night, 8,499 ballots were counted from 18,200 people eligible to vote in the election.
About 150 more ballots have yet to be counted. Those were absentee ballots dropped off at the courthouse on Tuesday.
In Chimacum, with 3,580 votes counted, 2,533 voters, 70.75 percent, favored the proposal. Against it were 1,047 voters, 29.25 percent.
In Port Townsend, with 4,229 ballots counted, 2,834 voters, 67.312 percent, passed the levy. Some 1,395 voters, 32.99 percent, were against it.
The Quilcene levy had 328 voters, 58.99 percent, in favor and 228, 41.01 percent, against it.
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The rest of the story appears in Wednesday’s Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.
