The Si View Metropolitan Park District’s current property tax levy funds the basic safety, ongoing maintenance and day-to-day operations of park facilities and recreation programs, including the Si View Community Center and Pool, parks, playfields, playgrounds, sports programs, trails, adult programming, summer camps, and after-school recreation programs for youth and teens.  Proposition 1 is intended to help maintain – not increase – current levels of funding and services.  Local revenues in the District have declined significantly in recent years.  Last year voters in the District approved a one-year operations and maintenance levy for 2012 that is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2012.  Proposition 1 would authorize the District to levy a one-year excess property tax for collection in 2013 on all taxable property within the District in an approximate rate of $0.27 per $1,000 of assessed value.  If Proposition 1 is not passed by voters, local funding will be reduced by approximately 51 percent in 2013 (approximately $527,719) and major cuts will be required in the day-to-day operations, recreational programs, basic safety, and on-going maintenance of Si View Community Center and Pool, parks and facilities.  Proposition 1 is a one-year operations and maintenance levy that will help maintain the current level of District funding and services.