School levy passage is needed

The reduced amount elected school board directors at the Grand Coulee Dam School District are seeking in the upcoming levy should be an easy yes for voters.

Sensitive to the times we’re in and emerging from, the board changed course in July after getting feedback on an earlier proposal. In essence, they cut their ask in half.

That doesn’t mean the needs are fewer, but it does show there’s flexibility in meeting long-term needs for maintenance and upgrades.

Unless your property was assessed this year at more than twice what it was before (highly unlikely), your taxes to support schools are going down.

Local schools are not perfect, of course, but they are striving, successfully, to improve, and hacking their funding won’t make them better. Don’t listen to those who tell you otherwise.

A levy failure would have a long-term impact — likely for far more than the at-least one year the district would have to figure out how to do without either levy money or the extra state education money passing one brings in.

Vote yes on the school levy and continue to support local education.

Scott Hunter

Editor and publisher