THANK YOU for helping VIS get the word out to our Community about the bond. Thank you for sharing last Monday’s message points! Even though it is Mid-Winter Break (hope you will enjoy this week!) attached you will find this week’s Messaging Points, JPG images, and a few PDF documents for your to use in your Enews blasts, newsletters, PTA Facebook pages, etc. We are continuing to try and make this as easy as possible for you to copy and paste or import into your documents…please share this info with your communications team.
As promised, every Monday VIS sends an email with a new Bond Facts and a JPG Image (or two) which you can post on your website, send out in your Enews, and/or put in your Newsletter. Some people asked for these facts to post on their Facebook page, so these can be used for that too.
All PTAs in Issaquah have endorsed the bond, which means you can advocate to “VOTE YES”. Remember, if you send that “YES” wording out – you need to use your own PTA database and your PTA needs to send out the info (can’t say VOTE YES through the School Enews or through the School Office database).
Everyone can send out Facts about the Bond through the School’s news. Just the VOTE YES part needs to be only through your PTA (schools can’t say VOTE YES, they can only present the facts.
FYI – LINKS TO INFORMATION:
In today’s email (see below) – you will find:
2 New Messaging Points & 2 JPG Images with those same message points in the graphic:
“What is the the 2016 Bond”
“How will the 2016 Bond impact taxes?”
PLUS:
3 PDF FIles – which are a Bond Fact Pages translated into 3 languages: Spanish, Korean, and Mandarin – please post on your websites
What is in the 2016 Bond?
• The construction of four new schools: The District has grown by more than 2,000 students in the past four years and is conservatively projected to add an additional 1,500 to 2,000 students in the next five years. This continued enrollment growth requires the addition of two new elementary schools, a 6th middle school and a 4th comprehensive high school.
• Property for school sites: The District must acquire the property needed for the new schools in the 2016 bond.
• Rebuild Pine Lake Middle School: Originally built in 1974, PLMS will be completely reconstructed on site, providing a new learning environment with updated technology and energy efficient operations.
• Critical Expansion/Modernization of six existing elementary schools: In order to accommodate growing student populations and provide for State funded Full Day Kindergarten, Discovery, Endeavor, Sunset, Cougar Ridge, Maple Hills and Clark Elementary schools will all be expanded/modernized by four to eight classrooms each.
How will the 2016 Bond impact taxes?
In relation to current property taxes, if the $533.5M bond is approved, residents can expect to see NO increase if the tax rate if the bond is approved. The tax rate will remain at or below the current $4.14 per $1000 of assessed property value.
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