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Key Findings

1. Three measures on the ballot would, if approved, increase taxes in the Spokane area by nearly $600 million.
    
2. Spokane Public Schools Proposition 1 seeks to build six middle schools and a new football stadium.
    
3. City of Spokane Proposition 1 would build or renovate more than a half-dozen city libraries.
    
4. Because state property taxes increased this year for education, local citizens were promised tax relief in 2019.
    
5. Instead of tax relief, officials now want to spend the tax refunds elsewhere and keep the property tax rate permanently higher.

Introduction

This fall, voters in the City of Spokane and the Spokane Public School district will decide whether to cancel a portion of property tax relief provided under a state-passed education funding law.

A trio of measures – Spokane Public School District Proposition 1, City of Spokane Proposition 1, and a City of Spokane Advisory Vote – would together increase taxes by more than half a billion dollars to build six new middle schools, a new high school football stadium, three new public libraries and renovate four other city libraries.

Passage of the measures would increase property taxes on the average Spokane homeowner by about $200 per year.

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