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LOST BALLOT? Last-minute options

Lost your ballot? Just realized you never received one in the mail? It's still possible for you to vote, and help pass our local school levies:

OPTION #1: Vote in-person at special "Accessible" voting center. Nearest one is Bellevue City Hall - open Mon. 10a-5p and Tue 7a-8p. Link to KC Elections Accessible Voting page.
OPTION #2: Get a replacement provisional ballot via EMAIL! Call KC Elections at 206-296-VOTE, tell them your situation, they will email you a PDF of your ballot and a Voter's Oath to sign. Print, fill it out, return & postmark by Feb 9 to count. Thanks to Betsy Evensen for this great tip!

Phone Banks Successfully Concluded!

Monday Night (Feb 8) Session Cancelled.
We're happy to report that we finished all of our planned voter reminder phone calls last Thursday night, so we have cancelled the last session originally scheduled for Monday, Feb 8. Special thanks to those who had signed up to volunteer on Monday night - we appreciate your willingness to help! If you know someone who may have been considering helping on Monday, please let them know this session is cancelled. Thanks!

Seattle Times Endorses Levies

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

SnoValley Star Endorses Levies

"School levy requests—both deserve yes votes"
READ MORE: click to read full article at SnoValley Star

Valley Record Endorses Levies

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

School Levy YouTube Video

Please share with your friends: we put together a little video that tries to be entertaining, while highlighting just how important it is to Vote YES to Renew our School Levies!

Snoqualmie City Council Endorses Levies

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.”
READ MORE: Click to read the full endorsement

Si View Park District Endorses School Levies

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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School levies are critical to keeping teachers, programs and counselors

January 13, 2010
By Laura Geggel
SnoValley Star

Three years ago, Cascade View Elementary School counselor Sandy Smelser noticed a boy who had great potential and a lot of energy. “He is a boy who we have felt since first grade could go either direction in life,” Smelser said. Smelser and her colleagues encouraged the student to pursue one of the leadership programs the counselors had created for students. Now a fourth-grader, he is excelling at Cascade View, volunteering in the leadership peer mediation program and helping special-needs students. Had the counselors not worked with the student, “I think he would have been a major repeat offender in our discipline system,” Smelser said.

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

SLIDESHOW: Tech levy helps Snoqualmie Valley schools chase change

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

School levy dollars touch lives

By ALLISON ESPIRITU
Snoqualmie Valley Record Reporter
Jan 05 2010, 5:15 PM

Chuck Smith, a Snoqualmie Valley School District bus driver for the past three years, would drive his route for free if he had a choice. “I’ve been through three big careers, and I wish I had started with this,” he said. On his route, Smith is laid-back, but also takes time to get to know riders and ensure that they follow the rules.
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