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The county has $2],ooo,
and it's looking for good
groups to fund.
Local food and shelter pro-
grams have until Jan. 14 to
apply for a share of $21,4o9,
recently awarded to Klickitat
Count), to supplement local
emergency programs.
The county has received a
similar award for a number of
years. It has usually gone to
shelter projects, food banks,
and church organizations,
according to Linda Schneider
of the Klickitat Skamania
Development Council
Community Action Agency
(CAA), which administers the
award.
But, said Schneider, any
other qualifying organization
may apply.
The money comes from an
Emergency Food and Shelter
National Board Program grant.
Under its terms, according to
CAA's announcenlent, organi-
zations receiving funds nmst:
1) be private voluntary non-
profits or units of government,
2) have an accounting sys-
tem,
3) have demonstrated capa-
bility to deliver emergency food
and/or shelter progrmns.
A local board will review
applications, determine how
the funds awarded to Klickitat
County are to be distributed
among local food and shelter
programs, and recommend
agencies to receive funds.
The local board is made up
of representatives from the
Klickitat County Board of
Commissioners, United Way,
Red Cross, Yakama Indian
Nation, the Guided Path
Homeless Shelter and the
Mount Adams Ministerial
Association.
Commsissioner Don Struck
currently serves on the local
board.
A national board selected
Klickitat County to receive the
lump-sum award. This board,
charged to distribute funds
appropriated by Congress to
help expand the capacity of
food and shelter programs in
high-need areas around the
country, is chaired by the
Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA)
and consists of representatives
from The Salvation Army,
American Red Cross, United
Jewish Communitiesand
other charitable groups.
Public and private voluntary
organizations interested in
applying for Emergency Food
and Shelter Program funds
should contact Linda Schneider
at (509) 493-3954 for an appli-
cation.
LEVY
from page I
based on a district's property lose the last of the $131,OOO school officials.
value; high-value districts, like state aid. "It's still 6o cents below the
Goldendale, get little or no aid. However, tax rates decreased high point we had in the '9os,"
Districts with low total property radically, falling from $2.73 said Grabenhorst.
value, like Wishram and nine years ago to $1.5] in 2oo3. He encouraged district resi-
Bickleton, get enough state aid That's $151 in annual taxes on a dents to ask questions about the
they don't even ask for local house worth $]oo,ooo.levy, if they had them. Contact
levies. Next year, said Hill, the If the proposed 2oo5-o6 lc-c¢ individual school board mem-
plant's tax value will mean that passes, the local tax rate would bers, they said, or call the dis-
the district will almost certainly rise to about $2.m, according to tfict offices directly, at 773-5177.
SUPPORT
ure.) School district levies though, they will" have kept is possible, probably t ises'0ccu[
typically support normal the district financially whole, than $4- ~1
operations, from purchasing and kept its $123,OOO in state ~mson
textbooks to paying utilities, equalization funds, she said. LYLE / DALLESPORT[~dale',
Superintendent Susan The levy totals just about 6 The Lyle school dis~nr'ari~'ocl
Garrett noted that the pro- percent of the total district levy committee recomme* of whi,
posed levy "is not additional budget, but without it and the and its school board app~ssion
tax, but a replacement tax. matching state money, the on Dee. 18, a replacemenSee;andt
The replacement levy helps district s funds would shrive] totaling $255,ooo. Resi~rantor~
fund the items not fully fund-
ed by the state each year."
The levy represents an
increase from the $1oo,ooo
needed annually now, Garrett
said, to keep programs strong
in the face of demanding
maintenance on the aging
building, and the need for
food services and classroom
supplies.
Under the proposed levy,
which represents a portion of
the total school budget, dis-
trict taxpayers would see tax
rates rise next year from
$2.46 to $2.75 per $1,ooo of
assessed value. In 2006, rates
are expected to drop back to
$2.67, according to Garrett.
Centerville School can be
reached at 773-4893; officials
are encouraging residents to
call and ask, or seek board
members to ask, any levy
questions they may have.
by more than 12 percent,
noted Anderson.
The proposed levy is the
same amount as the current
levy; the district hopes the
money will be adequate.
Officials did not want to ask
for anything more, given the
tough economy. Athletics,
library materials, new carpet-
ing, textbooks -the levy goes
toward all those things, said
Anderson.
from areas around the di~rved or
-- including DallestSaid writt
Appleton and High Prair~t 3r E
participated on the comrn~.
The levy amount isle" ~0~thal
same as the current one,~bed in
ing as a replacement to r~, and
tain services, said disip0ssessi
M~h servic
di~ The Tru
KLICKITAT
Like other small school dis-
tricts, Klickitat is proposing a
replacement levy. The amount
is $9o,ooo for three years, said
Superintendent Ron
Hackbarth. The district antici-
pates receiving $18o,ooo in
state equalization money.
superintendent
Huffman. The current
school property tax
$1.68 per $1,ooo
value.
Lyle-Dallesport's
enrollment has
recent years,
Klickitat County trend.
were 455 students in
Huffman. The
seems to have stabilized
declining to about
and last.
New construction
As with other small districts, district -- houses,
state equalization money is a Dallesport industrial
significant portion of sewer projects -- may
Klickitat s school budget -- and raised the total tax base
it is dependent on voters pass- would lower the rate.
GLENWOOD
If Glenwood voters pass a ing local levies, officials said.
proposed $no,ooo, two-year The Kliekitat district's cur-
replacement levy, they will rent tax rate is $3.73 per The communities
see a tax rate "probably $1,ooo of assessed property Biekleton, Roosevelt
around the same," as today's value. If the replacement levy Wishram are not
$2.83 per $1,ooo, saidpasses, said Haekbarth, tax sehool levies this year.
Business Manager Chrisrates will remain roughly the --Dan Richardson
Anderson. More importantly, same, though a small increase Sam
~stee's S~
pSsessio
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