A letter in today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer from Seattle schoolparent Patricia Lott:
This letter is partly in reply to the Friday letter from Stefan Sharkansky, who seems confused about the effect of the proposed Seattle Public School levies on property taxes. These levies are renewals of existing levies. They have already been added to your property tax bill. They will not add to it.Patricia is not correct. The levy has not already been added to my property tax bill. If it passes, the tax will not show up until next year's tax bill. Also, if the levy passes, the total tax attributable to school levies is indeed expected to increase from this year to next.
Furthermore, although Seattle school enrollment has been declining, the levy taxes have been growing faster than the local consumer price index, and the proposed levy would continue that trend.
More later.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 27, 2004 12:43 PM