REPLACEMENT LEVY INFORMATION
Following School Board approval on November 9, 2021, the Riverview School District will be placing two four-year replacement levies on the February 8, 2022 ballot.
As replacement levies, these levy propositions, with voter approval, will replace expiring four-year levies approved by voters in 2018. These new levy propositions are not new taxes. Rather, they simply replace levies which are expiring and require a simple majority of voter approval (50%).
Levies are crucial in maintaining the services, educational opportunities, technology, and staffing required for our students to achieve success. School districts rely on levies to fill in the "gaps" between what the state does and does not directly fund. Every four years, the Riverview School District, and districts across the state, ask voters to renew levies to continue maintaining opportunities to provide educational experiences our students, staff, and families expect and deserve.
For the Riverview School District, levies make up approximately 18% of our annual operating budget.
Proposition #1: Four-year Replacement Levy - Educational Programs and Operations (EP&O)
Proposition No. 1 would allow the Riverview School District to replace an existing Educational Programs and Operations levy that will expire at the end of calendar year 2022. The taxes collected by this replacement levy will be used to pay expenses of educational programs and operations that are not fully funded by the State of
Washington, including, but not limited to, nurses, special education, counselors, safety and security, instructional materials, athletics and extracurricular activities, specialized programs, transportation, instructional staff, maintenance of facilities, and other non-capital expenses necessary in the operation of the school district.
Proposition #2: Four-year Replacement Levy - Technology Capital Projects
Proposition No. 2 would allow the Riverview School District to replace an expiring Technology and Capital Project levy that will expire at the end of calendar year 2022. This levy would be used to pay for learning technology (software licensing, student devices, classroom upgrades), enhance school safety and network infrastructure, sustain necessary technology staffing, provide training related to the integration of technology, support ongoing maintenance and building improvements, addition of portable classrooms, and shall make other capital project expenditures as found necessary by the School Board of Directors.
As replacement levies, these levy propositions, with voter approval, will replace expiring four-year levies approved by voters in 2018. These new levy propositions are not new taxes. Rather, they simply replace levies which are expiring and require a simple majority of voter approval (50%).
Levies are crucial in maintaining the services, educational opportunities, technology, and staffing required for our students to achieve success. School districts rely on levies to fill in the "gaps" between what the state does and does not directly fund. Every four years, the Riverview School District, and districts across the state, ask voters to renew levies to continue maintaining opportunities to provide educational experiences our students, staff, and families expect and deserve.
For the Riverview School District, levies make up approximately 18% of our annual operating budget.
Proposition #1: Four-year Replacement Levy - Educational Programs and Operations (EP&O)
Proposition No. 1 would allow the Riverview School District to replace an existing Educational Programs and Operations levy that will expire at the end of calendar year 2022. The taxes collected by this replacement levy will be used to pay expenses of educational programs and operations that are not fully funded by the State of
Washington, including, but not limited to, nurses, special education, counselors, safety and security, instructional materials, athletics and extracurricular activities, specialized programs, transportation, instructional staff, maintenance of facilities, and other non-capital expenses necessary in the operation of the school district.
Proposition #2: Four-year Replacement Levy - Technology Capital Projects
Proposition No. 2 would allow the Riverview School District to replace an expiring Technology and Capital Project levy that will expire at the end of calendar year 2022. This levy would be used to pay for learning technology (software licensing, student devices, classroom upgrades), enhance school safety and network infrastructure, sustain necessary technology staffing, provide training related to the integration of technology, support ongoing maintenance and building improvements, addition of portable classrooms, and shall make other capital project expenditures as found necessary by the School Board of Directors.
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INFORMACIÓN SOBRE LA TASA DE REEMPLAZO
Tras la aprobación de la Junta Escolar el 9 de Noviembre de 2021, el Distrito Escolar de Riverview colocará dos gravámenes de reemplazo de cuatro años en la boleta electoral del 8 de Febrero de 2022. Como gravámenes de reemplazo, estas proposiciones de impuestos, con la aprobación de los votantes, reemplazarán a los gravámenes a cuatro años que expiran aprobados por los votantes en 2018. Estas nuevas propuestas de gravámenes no son nuevos impuestos. Más bien, simplemente reemplazan los gravámenes que expiran y requieren una mayoría simple de la aprobación de los votantes (50%). Los impuestos son cruciales para mantener los servicios, oportunidades educativas, tecnología y personal necesarios para que nuestros estudiantes logren el éxito. Los distritos escolares dependen de los gravámenes para llenar las "brechas" entre lo que el estado hace y lo que no financia directamente. Cada cuatro años, el Distrito Escolar de Riverview y los distritos de todo el estado piden a los votantes que renueven los impuestos para continuar manteniendo oportunidades de proporcionar experiencias educativas que nuestros estudiantes, personal y familias esperan y merecen. Para el Distrito Escolar de Riverview, las exacciones representan aproximadamente el 18% de nuestro presupuesto operativo anual. Propuesta #1: Tasa de reemplazo de cuatro años - Programas y Operaciones Educativas (EP&O) La Propuesta No 1 permitiría al Distrito Escolar de Riverview reemplazar un impuesto existente sobre Programas y Operaciones Educativas que expirará al final del año calendario 2022. Los impuestos recaudados por esta tasa de reemplazo se utilizarán para pagar los gastos de programas y operaciones educativas que no estén totalmente financiados por el Estado de Washington, incluyendo, pero no limitado a, enfermeras, educación especial, consejeros, seguridad, materiales de instrucción, atletismo y actividades extracurriculares, programas especializados, transporte, personal de instrucción, mantenimiento de instalaciones y otros gastos no relacionados con la capital necesarios en el funcionamiento del distrito escolar. Propuesta #2: Tasa de reemplazo de cuatro años - Proyectos de Capital Tecnológico La Propuesta No 2 permitiría al Distrito Escolar de Riverview reemplazar un gravamen de Tecnología y Proyecto de Capital que expirará al final del año calendario 2022. Este gravamen se utilizaría para pagar la tecnología de aprendizaje (licencias de software, dispositivos para estudiantes, actualizaciones de aulas), mejorar la seguridad escolar y la infraestructura de red, mantener el personal tecnológico necesario, proporcionar capacitación relacionada con la integración de la tecnología, apoyar el mantenimiento continuo y las mejoras de edificios, agregar aulas portátiles y realizar otros gastos de proyectos de capital según lo considere necesario. |
