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The Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District is the county’s largest, geographically — 500 square miles in the northeast corner of the county, taking in much of the state’s two largest Native American tribes and the towns of Willow Creek, Orleans, Hoopa, Salyer and Weitchpec. The district runs seven schools in the sprawled out region, and most of them are in need of repair. So the district has put forth Measure H, which would allow the district to raise about $6 million through a bond sale. The bonds would be repaid by an additional levy on property tax bills in the area — about $60 per $100,000 of the assessed value of each parcel in the district. To succeed, Measure H must pass with at least 55 percent of the vote.
Cyn Van Fleet, the KTJUSD’s business manager, says that the $6 million the district is requesting is really only a drop in the bucket — the majority of the school sites in the district are over 50 years old, and showing the signs. The district estimates it has about $20 million worth of work to do, Van Fleet said. But Measure H would allow the district to take care of some of the more pressing matters — for instance, replacing the schools’ outdated heating and cooling systems, without which learning up in the temperature-variable hills becomes all but impossible.
Eureka city government will be holding a series of neighborhood meetings in each of the city’s five wards to get out information and take questions on the two tax measures on that city’s ballot. Upcoming meetings: Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the Senior Resource Center, 1910 California St. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the EFD’s Fire Safety Classroom, 3030 L St.; Monday, Oct. 13, at the Cooper Gulch Community Room, 1720 Tenth St.; and Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the EPD Annex in the Bayshore Mall. Wednesday, Oct. 22, at Eureka High’s Marshall Annex, 1030 Del Norte Ave. All meetings begin at 6:30 p.m.
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