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p_i_on_ee_r_BOnd prices meant.ff{00.againlOWer cost: Hood Canal Scho hopes
for high school vote for crucial levy a t 00proval ili
Hood Canal School District is Hood Canal Cmzens Advmory 11 8 percent That includes paint class size will increase, stu
asking its voters on February 2 to Committee established the levy
l'ioneer School District has a
$16.1 million, 20-year bond issue
()n the February 2 ballot. The
election marks the third time the
district has asked voters to pass
such a bond.
If it's approved this time
around, the funds from the bond
issue would enable the district to
build a new high school, add six
new classrooms at the primary
school and modernize and add
classrooms onto the intermediate
and middle school.
It's basically the same bond is-
sue as one voters narrowly turned
down twice last year. But there is
one lnajor difference: a lower cost
to taxpayers because of a drop in
tile bond market.
The bond would cost property
owners in the district an estimat-
ed $1.31 per $1,000 of assessed
valuation. That means the owner
of a home with an assessed valua-
tion of $100,000 would pay $131 a
year, or $10.92 a month, begin-
ning in the year 2000 to cover the
cost of the bond.
LAST APRIL, the bond issue
would have cost voters $1.90 per
$1,000 of assessed valuation,
which computed to $190 a year on
a home assessed at $100,000. But
because of the current conditions
in the bond market, the cost is
now estimated at $1.31 per
$1,00o.
"It's a real bargain now,"
Pioneer Schools Superintendent
I)ick Sirokman argues. "It's a
window of opportunity because of
tile bond market being so low
right now."
Another opportunity is the
beautiful piece of property where
the high school would be built
that's located in the middle of the
district, Sirokman said, adding he
doesn't know how long the prop-
erty owner, Simpson Timber
Company, would keep it available
for sale to the school district.
If the bond passes, a 56-acre
parcel would be acquired next to
the park-and-ride at State Route
3 and Pickering Road. That would
be the site of the new high school,
which would house some 500 stu-
dents.
CURRENTLY, NEARLY 400
high school students live in the
Pioneer district and attend either
Shelton or North Mason high
schools. Pioneer pays Shelton and
North Mason more than $400,000
a year to educate its students. If
the bond passes, those dollars
would stay within the Pioneer
district.
Pioneer currently sends three
busloads of students to Shelton
High School. Sirokman said the
students are on the buses up to
two hours or more each day.
Some Pioneer students are catch-
ing buses fbr SHS as early as 6:11
in the morning. "That is a real
burden on a lot of families," Sir-
okman said.
If Shelton School District
builds a second high school before
Pioneer has its own, Pioneer resi-
dents would be obligated to pay a
portion of Shelton's 20-year bond
issue, Sirokman argued.
"PIONEER SCHOOL District
residents will be paying for
another high school within the
next four or five years whether
they like it or not," he said.
In addition to a new high
school and new primary school
classrooms, the bond would en-
able the district to make major
revisions to the intermediate-mid-
dle school, which would bring
facilities up to building code and
standards to include moderniza-
tion, demolition and construction
of 20 new rooms.
The proposed high school
would include a complete curricu-
lum; general classrooms; lab
spaces for sciences, business, tele-
communications and more; a gym;
an auditorium/multipurpose room
for use by students and the com-
munity; athletic and intramural
fields and a space for fueling and
parking buses.
approve a two-year maintenance-
and-operations levy that would
raise $380,000 for the year 2000
and $380,000 for 2001.
The levy rate is estimated at
79 cents per $1,000 of assessed
valuation. That means for a home
with an assessed value of
$150,000, the owner would pay
$118.50 per year for two years.
The levy replaces an earlier
levy and is not added onto that
previous levy, Hood Canal School
Superintendent John Simpson
said.
"It's like a magazine subscrip-
tion," Simpson said. "You order it
tbr a year and it runs out, then
you renew it."
SOME 26 members of the
Some v,):ers get
the wrong ballots
Several incorrect absentee bal-
lots were mailed to voters in the
Hood Canal School District, Ma-
son County Auditor Al Brotche
reported.
Fifty-three of 1,200 absentee
ballots sent out to voters in the
school district by Apex Mailing
Services in Olympia for the Feb-
ruary 2 maintenance-and-opera-
tions levy were incorrect, Brotche
said.
The affected Hood Canal
School District voters were mis-
takenly sent ballots for an elec-
tion in the North Mason School
District.
The Mason County Elections
Department has made several
phone calls, sent letters and new
ballots to voters who received the
wrong ballots. "Every step will be
taken to correct this error and we
apologize for your inconvenience,"
Brotche said.
Voters in the school district
who have any questions about
their ballots are urged to call the
elections department at 427-9670,
extension 470.
amount, which was later adopted
by the Hood Canal School Board.
The citizens' advisory committee
included parents, grandparents,
senior citizens, school staff mem-
bers and people with no children
enrolled in the school. The group
met several times and studied
school district data, then made its
recommendations to the school
board.
The levy advisory committee
and school board are asking only
for what is needed at. the school,
Simpson said. By law, the district
could ask for a maximum of
$767,746 for each of the two
years, but instead is seeking voter
approval for 49.5 percent of that
maximum amount.
The majority of the levy funds,
nearly 79 percent, will be used for
"academics," Simpson explained.
That means those funds will go
for maintaining existing pro-
grams and adding new programs
to meet student needs; buying
new textbooks to replace math,
social studies and science books
that are 10 to 14 years old; pro-
viding student supplies and mate-
rials; buying student and staff
learning equipment, including
computers and software and li-
brary books; and making the dis-
trict's nonhigh payments to Shel-
ton School District.
"That's an awful lot of levy
money going to those basic skills
areas," he noted.
THE BALANCE of the levy
money will be spent as follows:
• Maintenance and custodial,
Journal roles change
aider death of editor
The Shelton Mason County Journal has recon and Port of Shelton since 1993 While society edi
figured its leadership following the January 3
death of Henry Gay, editor and publisher of the
newspaper since 1966.
Three faces familiar to Journal readers are in-
volved in the editorial changes.
Charlie Gay, the younger son of Henry Gay,
has become the editor and publisher. A 1971
graduate of Shelton High School, he was sports
editor of The Journal from 1968 to 1971 while in
high school and earned a bachelor's degree in
economics from the University of Washington in
1976.
lie held eight positions on The University of
Washington Daily while in college. He then
worked in newsrooms at The Tacoma News Trib-
une, The Lynnwood Enterprise, The Scappoose
Spotlight in Oregon and The Northshore Citizen
in Bothell before returning to Shelton in 1980 to
become managing editor of The Journal. He has
supervised the newsroom in that position for the
last 18 years.
Carolyn Maddux has taken over Charlie Gay's
position as managing editor. She grew up on the
North Shore of Hood Canal and received a
bachelor's degree in English from the University
of Washington in 1965. Her long history with
The Journal started in 1978, when she began a
six-year stint as Mason County Visitor's Guide
editor and newsroom fill-in.
From 1983 to 1993 she was the newspaper's
society editor and county commission reporter.
She has been covering the police, sheriff, courts
tor she started her "Et cetera" column, which she
has written ever since and will continue to do.
She earned a master's degree in creative writing
from the McGregor School of Antioch University
in Ohio in 1998 and teaches writing at Olympic
College Shelton.
Sean Hanlon has been hired to assume Mad-
dux's beat covering cops, court and the port. A
Chicago native, he received a bachelor's degree
in journalism from Marquette University in Wis-
consin and has worked in the profession for 24
years - six of them in the Midwest, nine in Alas-
ka and nine in Washington. He was The Jour-
nal's general assignment reporter from 1990 to
1997 before starting his own newspaper venture,
The Working Circular, based in Shelton. He has
also published several novels.
Henry Gay's older son, Stephen, a 1968 gradu-
ate of Shelton High School, continues as The
Journal's advertising manager. He worked part
time in the Journal pressroom from 1966 to 1971
and was the production foreman from 1984 to
1997, when he moved into the ad room as super-
visor.
The late publisher's daughter, Julie Orme, a
1973 SHS graduate, will continue as the busi-
ness manager. She has been in that position su-
pervising the front office since 1990. The three
Gay children will share the responsibility of run-
ning the newspaper for their mother Fern Gay,
the publisher's widow, who now owns the paper.
Commuters credited:
Jobless rate
dips to 5'50/0
The December unemployment Pierce and Thurston counties has
rate in Mason County dipped to been real strong.
5.5 percent, down two-tenths of a Aside from Kitsap County,
percentage point from November, which had an unemployment rate
the Washington State Employ- of 4.9 percent in December, Ma-
ment Security Department re- son County had the lowest rate on
ported, the Olympic Peninsula and most
The December rate a year ago of Southwest Washington. Unem-
was 6 percent in Mason County. ployment rates in those other
Last month, there were 1,390 counties last month were: Clal-
unemployed workers out of a la- lam County, 8.4 percent; Jeffer-
bor force of 25,440 in the county, son County, 6.9 percent; Grays
In November, the labor force to- Harbor County, 9.8 percent; Pa-
taled 22,870, while the number of cific County, 10.2 percent; Wah-
unemployed was 1,310. kiakum County, 8.2 percent; Cow-
So, what accounts for the lower litz County, 8 percent; and Lewis
unemployment rate in Mason County, 8.3percent.
County? ONLY CLARK County, at 4.3
THERE IS A substantial corn- percent, and Thurston County, at
muter population in the county, 4.6 percent, were lower than Ma-
and during December there were son County in Southwest Wash-
employment opportunities in ington.
' Thurston and Kitsap counties for For the state as a whole, De-
people willing to commute, said cember's unemployment rate was
Chris Johnson, an analyst with an even 5 percent, up just a tenth
the Employment Security Depart- of a percentage point from the
ment. month before. Seasonal cutbacks
In addition, there was the an- in agriculture, food processing
nual Christmas tree harvest, and and construction followed their
Christmas was pretty good this typical seasonal pattern of decline
year, Johnson said. Also, non- at year's end, the Employment
manufacturing employment in Security Department reported.
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ing, roof and carpet repair; devel-
oping safe and improved fields
and play equipment; preventive
maintenance for the school's heat-
ing systems; and buying adequate
tools and equipment for the staff.
It does not, however, include add-
ing air conditioning in the admin-
istrative offices and staff room,
which was a point of controversy
among some district voters in an
earlier levy try.
• Transportation, 4.6 percent.
That will help pay for busing
costs not fully funded by the state
for "to and from home" transport
and busing for after-school activi-
ties.
• Extracurricular, 4.6 percent.
That will assist the district with
unfunded costs for student learn-
ing opportunities, including field
trips, outdoor education, student
leadership, the school's annual,
athletics and more.
LAST YEAR, Hood Canal suf-
fered a double levy failure, the
second time by only a handful of
votes. That failure led to the cut-
ting of five full-time teachers and
one part-time teacher from the
school's 26-person teaching staff.
If the levy fails twice this year,
Simpson said the district will be
seriously at risk. More teachers
and support staff will be lost,
program offerings in the "ba Tb
highly-capable and arts andi comp
richment areas will decre# t c
staff development will be li: F :el
and personnel for proper stu$ an t
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ments, equipment emerge
(if, for example, a pipe bre
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must be paid and those costs
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p_i_on_ee_r_BOnd prices meant.ff{00.againlOWer cost: Hood Canal Scho hopes
for high school vote for crucial levy a t 00proval ili
Hood Canal School District is Hood Canal Cmzens Advmory 11 8 percent That includes paint class size will increase, stu
asking its voters on February 2 to Committee established the levy
l'ioneer School District has a
$16.1 million, 20-year bond issue
()n the February 2 ballot. The
election marks the third time the
district has asked voters to pass
such a bond.
If it's approved this time
around, the funds from the bond
issue would enable the district to
build a new high school, add six
new classrooms at the primary
school and modernize and add
classrooms onto the intermediate
and middle school.
It's basically the same bond is-
sue as one voters narrowly turned
down twice last year. But there is
one lnajor difference: a lower cost
to taxpayers because of a drop in
tile bond market.
The bond would cost property
owners in the district an estimat-
ed $1.31 per $1,000 of assessed
valuation. That means the owner
of a home with an assessed valua-
tion of $100,000 would pay $131 a
year, or $10.92 a month, begin-
ning in the year 2000 to cover the
cost of the bond.
LAST APRIL, the bond issue
would have cost voters $1.90 per
$1,000 of assessed valuation,
which computed to $190 a year on
a home assessed at $100,000. But
because of the current conditions
in the bond market, the cost is
now estimated at $1.31 per
$1,00o.
"It's a real bargain now,"
Pioneer Schools Superintendent
I)ick Sirokman argues. "It's a
window of opportunity because of
tile bond market being so low
right now."
Another opportunity is the
beautiful piece of property where
the high school would be built
that's located in the middle of the
district, Sirokman said, adding he
doesn't know how long the prop-
erty owner, Simpson Timber
Company, would keep it available
for sale to the school district.
If the bond passes, a 56-acre
parcel would be acquired next to
the park-and-ride at State Route
3 and Pickering Road. That would
be the site of the new high school,
which would house some 500 stu-
dents.
CURRENTLY, NEARLY 400
high school students live in the
Pioneer district and attend either
Shelton or North Mason high
schools. Pioneer pays Shelton and
North Mason more than $400,000
a year to educate its students. If
the bond passes, those dollars
would stay within the Pioneer
district.
Pioneer currently sends three
busloads of students to Shelton
High School. Sirokman said the
students are on the buses up to
two hours or more each day.
Some Pioneer students are catch-
ing buses fbr SHS as early as 6:11
in the morning. "That is a real
burden on a lot of families," Sir-
okman said.
If Shelton School District
builds a second high school before
Pioneer has its own, Pioneer resi-
dents would be obligated to pay a
portion of Shelton's 20-year bond
issue, Sirokman argued.
"PIONEER SCHOOL District
residents will be paying for
another high school within the
next four or five years whether
they like it or not," he said.
In addition to a new high
school and new primary school
classrooms, the bond would en-
able the district to make major
revisions to the intermediate-mid-
dle school, which would bring
facilities up to building code and
standards to include moderniza-
tion, demolition and construction
of 20 new rooms.
The proposed high school
would include a complete curricu-
lum; general classrooms; lab
spaces for sciences, business, tele-
communications and more; a gym;
an auditorium/multipurpose room
for use by students and the com-
munity; athletic and intramural
fields and a space for fueling and
parking buses.
approve a two-year maintenance-
and-operations levy that would
raise $380,000 for the year 2000
and $380,000 for 2001.
The levy rate is estimated at
79 cents per $1,000 of assessed
valuation. That means for a home
with an assessed value of
$150,000, the owner would pay
$118.50 per year for two years.
The levy replaces an earlier
levy and is not added onto that
previous levy, Hood Canal School
Superintendent John Simpson
said.
"It's like a magazine subscrip-
tion," Simpson said. "You order it
tbr a year and it runs out, then
you renew it."
SOME 26 members of the
Some v,):ers get
the wrong ballots
Several incorrect absentee bal-
lots were mailed to voters in the
Hood Canal School District, Ma-
son County Auditor Al Brotche
reported.
Fifty-three of 1,200 absentee
ballots sent out to voters in the
school district by Apex Mailing
Services in Olympia for the Feb-
ruary 2 maintenance-and-opera-
tions levy were incorrect, Brotche
said.
The affected Hood Canal
School District voters were mis-
takenly sent ballots for an elec-
tion in the North Mason School
District.
The Mason County Elections
Department has made several
phone calls, sent letters and new
ballots to voters who received the
wrong ballots. "Every step will be
taken to correct this error and we
apologize for your inconvenience,"
Brotche said.
Voters in the school district
who have any questions about
their ballots are urged to call the
elections department at 427-9670,
extension 470.
amount, which was later adopted
by the Hood Canal School Board.
The citizens' advisory committee
included parents, grandparents,
senior citizens, school staff mem-
bers and people with no children
enrolled in the school. The group
met several times and studied
school district data, then made its
recommendations to the school
board.
The levy advisory committee
and school board are asking only
for what is needed at. the school,
Simpson said. By law, the district
could ask for a maximum of
$767,746 for each of the two
years, but instead is seeking voter
approval for 49.5 percent of that
maximum amount.
The majority of the levy funds,
nearly 79 percent, will be used for
"academics," Simpson explained.
That means those funds will go
for maintaining existing pro-
grams and adding new programs
to meet student needs; buying
new textbooks to replace math,
social studies and science books
that are 10 to 14 years old; pro-
viding student supplies and mate-
rials; buying student and staff
learning equipment, including
computers and software and li-
brary books; and making the dis-
trict's nonhigh payments to Shel-
ton School District.
"That's an awful lot of levy
money going to those basic skills
areas," he noted.
THE BALANCE of the levy
money will be spent as follows:
• Maintenance and custodial,
Journal roles change
aider death of editor
The Shelton Mason County Journal has recon and Port of Shelton since 1993 While society edi
figured its leadership following the January 3
death of Henry Gay, editor and publisher of the
newspaper since 1966.
Three faces familiar to Journal readers are in-
volved in the editorial changes.
Charlie Gay, the younger son of Henry Gay,
has become the editor and publisher. A 1971
graduate of Shelton High School, he was sports
editor of The Journal from 1968 to 1971 while in
high school and earned a bachelor's degree in
economics from the University of Washington in
1976.
lie held eight positions on The University of
Washington Daily while in college. He then
worked in newsrooms at The Tacoma News Trib-
une, The Lynnwood Enterprise, The Scappoose
Spotlight in Oregon and The Northshore Citizen
in Bothell before returning to Shelton in 1980 to
become managing editor of The Journal. He has
supervised the newsroom in that position for the
last 18 years.
Carolyn Maddux has taken over Charlie Gay's
position as managing editor. She grew up on the
North Shore of Hood Canal and received a
bachelor's degree in English from the University
of Washington in 1965. Her long history with
The Journal started in 1978, when she began a
six-year stint as Mason County Visitor's Guide
editor and newsroom fill-in.
From 1983 to 1993 she was the newspaper's
society editor and county commission reporter.
She has been covering the police, sheriff, courts
tor she started her "Et cetera" column, which she
has written ever since and will continue to do.
She earned a master's degree in creative writing
from the McGregor School of Antioch University
in Ohio in 1998 and teaches writing at Olympic
College Shelton.
Sean Hanlon has been hired to assume Mad-
dux's beat covering cops, court and the port. A
Chicago native, he received a bachelor's degree
in journalism from Marquette University in Wis-
consin and has worked in the profession for 24
years - six of them in the Midwest, nine in Alas-
ka and nine in Washington. He was The Jour-
nal's general assignment reporter from 1990 to
1997 before starting his own newspaper venture,
The Working Circular, based in Shelton. He has
also published several novels.
Henry Gay's older son, Stephen, a 1968 gradu-
ate of Shelton High School, continues as The
Journal's advertising manager. He worked part
time in the Journal pressroom from 1966 to 1971
and was the production foreman from 1984 to
1997, when he moved into the ad room as super-
visor.
The late publisher's daughter, Julie Orme, a
1973 SHS graduate, will continue as the busi-
ness manager. She has been in that position su-
pervising the front office since 1990. The three
Gay children will share the responsibility of run-
ning the newspaper for their mother Fern Gay,
the publisher's widow, who now owns the paper.
Commuters credited:
Jobless rate
dips to 5'50/0
The December unemployment Pierce and Thurston counties has
rate in Mason County dipped to been real strong.
5.5 percent, down two-tenths of a Aside from Kitsap County,
percentage point from November, which had an unemployment rate
the Washington State Employ- of 4.9 percent in December, Ma-
ment Security Department re- son County had the lowest rate on
ported, the Olympic Peninsula and most
The December rate a year ago of Southwest Washington. Unem-
was 6 percent in Mason County. ployment rates in those other
Last month, there were 1,390 counties last month were: Clal-
unemployed workers out of a la- lam County, 8.4 percent; Jeffer-
bor force of 25,440 in the county, son County, 6.9 percent; Grays
In November, the labor force to- Harbor County, 9.8 percent; Pa-
taled 22,870, while the number of cific County, 10.2 percent; Wah-
unemployed was 1,310. kiakum County, 8.2 percent; Cow-
So, what accounts for the lower litz County, 8 percent; and Lewis
unemployment rate in Mason County, 8.3percent.
County? ONLY CLARK County, at 4.3
THERE IS A substantial corn- percent, and Thurston County, at
muter population in the county, 4.6 percent, were lower than Ma-
and during December there were son County in Southwest Wash-
employment opportunities in ington.
' Thurston and Kitsap counties for For the state as a whole, De-
people willing to commute, said cember's unemployment rate was
Chris Johnson, an analyst with an even 5 percent, up just a tenth
the Employment Security Depart- of a percentage point from the
ment. month before. Seasonal cutbacks
In addition, there was the an- in agriculture, food processing
nual Christmas tree harvest, and and construction followed their
Christmas was pretty good this typical seasonal pattern of decline
year, Johnson said. Also, non- at year's end, the Employment
manufacturing employment in Security Department reported.
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ing, roof and carpet repair; devel-
oping safe and improved fields
and play equipment; preventive
maintenance for the school's heat-
ing systems; and buying adequate
tools and equipment for the staff.
It does not, however, include add-
ing air conditioning in the admin-
istrative offices and staff room,
which was a point of controversy
among some district voters in an
earlier levy try.
• Transportation, 4.6 percent.
That will help pay for busing
costs not fully funded by the state
for "to and from home" transport
and busing for after-school activi-
ties.
• Extracurricular, 4.6 percent.
That will assist the district with
unfunded costs for student learn-
ing opportunities, including field
trips, outdoor education, student
leadership, the school's annual,
athletics and more.
LAST YEAR, Hood Canal suf-
fered a double levy failure, the
second time by only a handful of
votes. That failure led to the cut-
ting of five full-time teachers and
one part-time teacher from the
school's 26-person teaching staff.
If the levy fails twice this year,
Simpson said the district will be
seriously at risk. More teachers
and support staff will be lost,
program offerings in the "ba Tb
highly-capable and arts andi comp
richment areas will decre# t c
staff development will be li: F :el
and personnel for proper stu$ an t
management may not be a gree
able. sites
will
In addition, the district w0 curri
be able to replace old textb and
complete plans to buy educati greet
equipment, perform mainten Pilot
and custodial prevention 1 pu :ir
grams and provide extracur r %
lar programs and athletics fort teach
students.
Meanwhile, Simpson s "
fixed costs such as utility
ments, equipment emerge
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must be paid and those costs
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