Other potential levy proposals
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 10 years AGO
- Here are other Kootenai County funding proposals slated or expected to be scheduled for this year:
* The Coeur d'Alene School District will float a supplemental levy of $15 million per year for two years on March 10 for maintenance and operations. The increase is about $2.1 million more than the current levy. The increase would cost taxpayers an additional $2.50 per month on their property tax bills, and combined with the existing levy would total about $216 per year for a $200,000 home with the homeowners exemption. Supplemental levy proposals need a simple majority (50 percent, plus one) vote to pass.
* Post Falls voters will consider a $19.5 million facility bond levy to construct a new elementary school and facility improvements on March 10. Other improvements include: a second-story addition at River City Middle School, a performing arts auditorium and auxiliary gym at Post Falls High and a two-classroom addition at West Ridge Elementary. The proposal needs a vote of at least two-thirds approval to pass. The Post Falls School Board on Monday will decide whether to also forward a supplemental levy proposal for $4.65 million per year for two years to voters on March 10. The current levy is $4.255 million. Even if both proposals pass, school district taxes would not increase from what taxpayers are currently paying due to other bonds expiring and being refinanced. However, taxes for the owner of a $200,000 home would decrease by $2.71 per month if the facility bond fails. If the district didn't have a supplemental levy proposal at all, taxes would decrease by $18.12 a month for the average homeowner.
* The Kootenai and Plummer-Worley school districts will also float supplemental levy proposals on March 10. Details haven't been announced. School boards from both districts are expected to set the levy amounts on Monday.