SEQUIM — The apparent defeat of the Sequim School District’s maintenance and operations levy Tuesday means job losses for an undetermined number of certified teachers.
“Just how many, we don’t know,” Superintendent Mike Joyner said Wednesday. “Before we do anything, we have to determine how much money we’re going to have to cut.”
Tuesday night election returns showed 5,588 voters supported the levy, far less than the 6,962 needed for passage, election officials said.
More than 67 percent — 11,572 — of the 17,230 ballots sent out in the mail-in election were turned in.
With the apparent defeat, Joyner said the Sequim School Board has called a special meeting for Monday to determine a dollar amount to be trimmed from the district’s draft 2001-2002 operating budget.
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