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Ballots are out; vote yes on school levies.
Voters should say yes to school levies on the upcoming Feb. 9 ballot. Nearly a quarter of school budgets rely on these money measures. HERE'S a task for today: Sift beneath the stack of magazines, newspapers and assorted mail and pull out the envelope containing the Feb. 9 special-election ballot.

Ballots went out more than a week ago for levy elections in 164 school districts around the state, including the Puget Sound region: Seattle, Bellevue, Issaquah, Federal Way, Kent, Lake Washington, Mercer Island, Northshore, Riverview, Shoreline, Tahoma, Snoqualmie Valley and Tukwila.

Voters should approve these money measures. Most replace expiring levies, assuring schools of continued educational programming.
READ MORE: Click to read full editorial in Seattle Times

"School, library levies a good deal for Valley..."
READ MORE:  Click to read full editorial in Snoqualmie Valley Record

Snoqualmie, WA – At the Snoqualmie City Council meeting on January 25, 2010, council members voted unanimously in support of Snoqualmie Valley School District Propositions 1 and 2, which are on the ballot for the special election on February 9.

“The City of Snoqualmie has been a proud partner with the Snoqualmie Valley School District in sharing resources and stretching tax dollars wherever possible,” said Kathi Prewitt, Snoqualmie City Council Member. “The school district faces diminishing federal and state funding and is more reliant than ever on our local support. Both of these levies provide funding that directly impacts the day-to-day learning of our youth. We ask our citizens to support the Snoqualmie Valley schools and vote "yes" on both propositions.”
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More community support for levies - the Board of Directors of the Si View Metropolitan Park District have endorsed the two Snoqualmie Valley School District levies on the February 9th ballot. Thanks for your support!

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Si View Park District Endorsement

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Smelser, like all school counselors, security staff and librarians, is paid for with money from the local maintenance and operations levy.
READ MORE: Full Article in SnoValley Star

By ALLISON ESPIRITU
Snoqualmie Valley Record Reporter
Jan 13 2010, 8:45 AM · UPDATED

Google takes over for the encyclopedia. Computers and clickers replace chalkboards. Students use Microsoft Word instead of pens and paper. In a modern classroom, technology is always changing. Change is at the heart of the Snoqualmie Valley School District’s four year, $9.9 million technology levy, which goes before voters Feb. 9. ...
READ MORE: Full article in Snoqualmie Valley Record

Snoqualmie Valley Record
Jan 5, 2010
Guest Editorial by Superintendant Joel Aune
Start checking your mailbox soon. In a little more than two weeks, ballots will be sent to all registered voters in the Snoqualmie Valley School District. The ballots will include measures asking voters to consider two levies that would renew expiring ones approved back in 2006. The levies that will appear on the ballot include a four-year maintenance and operations levy, and a four-year technology levy. Nearly all of our neighboring districts are proposing levies of a similar nature ...
READ MORE: Full article in the Valley Record

The board of directors of Encompass have unanimously voted to endorse the two School Levy Renewal propositions on the Feb 9, 2010 ballot. Here's some of what they had to say:

 ...Encompass asks the Snoqualmie Valley community to please step up once more for the sake of our children’s educational future. We recognize that times are tough. We know that what we are asking is not easy. Nothing of value ever is. We also want the community to know that Encompass supports ongoing efforts to reform the state’s structure for public-school funding. But until that day arrives, the process of voting on school-bond and school-levy measures is the best we have.