UPDATE: Jan. 12 levy chat cancelled for board meeting.

Published 1:30 am Thursday, January 8, 2026

JAN. 12 UPDATE: Due to a special council meeting, tonight’s chat is cancelled and will be rescheduled on another day.

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Jan. 8: The Enumclaw School District is hosting two “community conversations” about the upcoming replacement levy measures on the Feb. 10 special election.

Superintendent Dr. Shaun Carey and other administration members will be at the district offices on Monday, Jan. 12 at 6 p.m., and Jan. 14 at 4:30 p.m.

There will be a presentation on the two levy measures, followed by a Q&A period.

Attendees can expect the event to be about an hour long.

The replacement levies being discussed are the Education Programs & Operations levy and Instructional Technology Improvements Levy.

The former ““bridges the gap between what the state provides… and the actual cost of running schools,” according to the district, and makes up around 16% of the district’s budget.

And the latter helps fund various tech improvement and maintenance projects across the district, like providing students with laptops, replacing two-way radios in school buildings, and providing cameras with smart boards and document cameras.

These levies are replacements — voters approved the lat EP&O levy in 2022, and the tech levy in 2020 — and the district estimates that the current tax rates will not change if the measures are approved.

The current tax rate for the EP&O levy is $1.74 per $1,000 in assessed property value; the current rate for the tech levy is 28 cents per $1,000 APV.