Highline schools are overcrowded. Enrollment increased by 1500 students in the past five years alone, with no slowdown in sight.

Forty parents, community members and business owners spent a year developing this smart, efficient, long-term approach to ensure our students have good, safe schools. It prioritizes our most urgent needs and tackles the problem in three phases to help keep costs down for taxpayers.

This bond provides additional classroom space so our children have the best opportunities to learn. We will build a new Highline High, a new middle school, and a new elementary school for Des Moines. It includes money to design new schools at Evergreen, Tyee and Pacific, so we can build them more quickly and efficiently in the next phase.

All students across the district will benefit from safety improvements, including centralized locks and improved surveillance cameras. Aging schools do not meet modern fire or earthquake codes and lack technology to monitor people coming and going.

This bond saves money in the long run by dealing with problems now when they are cheaper to fix. If we pass it, the state will provide matching funds.

Good schools benefit the whole community. Vote Yes on Prop One!

This Part One of a half a Billion dollar money grab is poorly constructed. The Highline School Board (HSD) wants you to believe the ideas were appropriately conceived; the fact is there's a Conflict of Interest: the company determining the viability of the buildings and the construction of the new ones is the same company!

Highline School Board wants us to believe this is a community driven bond.  Not true.  Any and all opposition to the Board’s Master Plan was completely dismissed!  Why won’t they listen? 

The HSD has the Lowest Per Capita income in all of King County. The affordability of this project in its entirety should be questioned!  We are currently paying for two previous school bonds; passage of this third bond would increase property taxes and rents substantially.

Relocating Des Moines Elementary, disrupting wetlands and natural habitats is unconscionable adding yet another closed and abandoned school campus to the ones that currently sit vacant.  While schools need to be updated and refurbished, the question remains:  Will these also be inadequately maintained once again to further the request for even more money?

Evergreen HS and the citizens of North Highline will get nothing from this Bond.

Vote No!

The state doesn’t pay for school construction, except with matching funds. Voter-approved bonds are the only way to build schools. Bonds are financed over 20 years and must overlap to keep up with instructional needs, growth and security. Contractors are selected by competitive bid. Opponents claims are not factual. This bond will reduce overcrowding and address safety issues, while keeping costs down for taxpayers. Delaying hurts kids and costs taxpayers more in the long run.

Submitted by: Charles Tuman, Rose Clark, Aaron Garcia, HighlineCFS@gmail.com

The CFAC Co-chairman Rose Clark said the bond needs to be logical and affordable for us.

Is it logical to finance technology for twenty years?  Is it affordable to pay for designs for additional schools not knowing if more bonds will pass?

This first bond asks for $299 Million with only $53.75 Million in matching funds. It' s not a dollar for dollar match.

We need updated schools but at what cost?

Definitely Vote No!

Submitted by: John Castronover, Karen Steele, 206-436-4806

Complete text of measure

60% yes vote and a minimum turnout equal to 9,183 voters (Washington Constitution, art. VII, sec. 2(b))

For questions about this measure, contact: Duggan Harman, Chief of Staff, 206-631-3078, duggan.harman@highlineschools.org