PORT ANGELES — If the Port Angeles School District’s maintenance and operations levy bid is again turned away by voters in May, school officials say they’ll gut $6 million out of the district’s budget.
But what specific programs and items are on the chopping block?
That’s what the School Board is set to discuss at a meeting Monday at 7 p.m.
The session will be held at district headquarters, 216 E. Fourth St.
The School Board’s fiscal advisory committee is scheduled to present the board with a preliminary budget scenario built on the premise that the next maintenance and operations levy fails — just in case it does.
Voters in February dealt the Port Angeles School District two levy defeats, making it the only school district on the North Olympic Peninsula to lose a levy election so far in 2005.
In an all-mail election ending Feb. 8, a replacement maintenance and operations, or M&O levy, and a capital technology levy each garnered less than the 60 percent of yes votes required by state law to win.
In response, the School Board recently voted to hold another levy election.
Ballots are scheduled to be mailed to voters on April 27 and due back by May 17.