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.  Assessed values in the District have declined significantly in recent years, resulting in reduced revenue.  Last year voters in the District approved a one-year operations and maintenance levy for 2013 that is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2013.  Proposition 1 would authorize the District to levy a one-year excess property tax for collection in 2014 on all taxable property within the District at an approximate rate of $0.28 per $1,000 of assessed value.  If Proposition 1 is not passed by voters, local funding will be reduced by approximately 52 percent in 2014 (approximately $540,016) 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.

For additional questions regarding this measure contact: Travis Stombaugh - Executive Director 425-831-1900 • tstombaugh@siviewpark.org