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IMAGE ©SMALLTOWNPAPERS, INC. ALL CONTENT COPYRIGHTED• ALL RIGHTS RESERVED• USE SUBJECT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT. REPRODUCTION, DISSEMINATION, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION PROHIBITED. PAGE 8 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 [.on the ~ing the. ~i~st the P Deed ( OTHER COMMUNITIES Washington, to-wit: A par- 600.11 feet to the center ,..- -- • -- • ~ = • .... , • $300.78 OTHERstatute. Said sale will be the sale date) and NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S ........... (~ SALE eel of lane in me or vvMamson r