JOYCE — A $1.31 million maintenance and operations levy is microscopically shy of the 60 percent voter approval needed after first results were tallied Tuesday night.
Initial returns in the all-mail election showed that 443 voters, or 59.62 percent, supported the measure, and 300 people, or 40.38 percent, didn’t.
State law requires 60 percent voter approval for a school tax levy measure to pass.
More ballots — those received Tuesday just before the 8 p.m. deadline, as well as mailed ballots postmarked by May 18 — are to be counted Friday at the Clallam County Auditor’s Office in Port Angeles.
“How could you get any closer? We are less than three votes from the passing lane,” Superintendent Rich Wilson said Tuesday evening.
“Here we are, waiting again for Friday’s count.”
This is the fourth time in about 16 months that the Crescent School Board has asked voters to support a levy proposal.