The Stanwood-Camano School Board voted last week to approve reductions to the 2023-24 budget and adopted recommended changes to the five elementary school attendance boundaries.
Evan Caldwell
The Stanwood-Camano School District approved a $90.6M budget, with reserves covering an anticipated $4.2M revenue shortfall.
For the second year in a row, the Stanwood-Camano School District is projected to spend more than it takes in.
Camano Island Fire and Rescue is asking island residents to reapprove its existing levy.
School officials are identifying where to make some cuts after voters twice rejected a facilities and technology levy.
Voters are again rejecting the Stanwood-Camano schools’ Facilities and Technology with only 47.5% votes in favor, as of the ballot count update Thursday, far short of the simple majority required to pass.
Stanwood-Camano voters are being asked again to renew the School District’s four-year Facilities and Technology Levy. The levy was rejected Feb. 8.
The Stanwood-Camano School Board voted Feb. 15 to place the same levy that voters rejected earlier this month on a special ballot for April 26.