SEQUIM — Fewer than 24 hours after a landslide win for a two-year Sequim School District levy, district officials and citizen supporters kicked off a campaign for a repeat performance in 2006.
Tuesday’s election victory by nearly a 3-1 margin for the $5.44 million maintenance and operations replacement levy, followed a bitter defeat in February.
The lessons learned will not be forgotten, said leaders of Citizens for Sequim Schools, a non-profit advocacy group.
“The purpose tonight is to kick off our community’s saying ‘yes’ in 2006. It begins today, tonight,” said Phil Langston, the organization’s co-chair, to a group of about a dozen who gathered Wednesday at Hurricane Coffee Co. downtown.
February’s stinging loss brought a gloom to the district, which receives about 20 percent of its funding from local levy revenues.
In response, the School Board voted to slash most extracurricular activities throughout the district and lay off 14 staff members.
Most of those moves are expected to be reversed once Tuesday’s election results are certified next week.