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| L to R: Rick Schulte, Richland School Superintendent; Michelle Whitney, Pasco School Superintendent: Dave Bond, Kennewick School Superintendent. |
BFSRA was honored at the January luncheon to host the three superintendents from the Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick School Districts. They were there to discuss the February 9th levy elections coming up in each district.
Each had ten minutes or so for presentation and each laid out their particular situations very clearly. The basics are: Bonds are for buildings, levies are for learning; the state isn't meeting it's obligation to fund it's "paramount duty" and even if they did, as Rick Schulte said, "we would want more than what is needed for the basics."
Levies primarily fund student learning and staffing; instructional support and technology; athletics and activies; operations and maintenance. Levy requests for this election are, in each district, Replacement Levies meaning the funding they seek will not increase taxes, but merely continue the same amounts presently being utilized for operations: Kennewick property owners would continue to pay at $3.50 per $1,000 of assessed property value per year; Pasco would continue at $4.50; and Richland at $3.28.
Thank you, Superintendents, for your expertise, knowledge, and dedication to all our kids.
Please Vote!!
