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VIS – Voter Outreach Projects!
As you know, VIS is working on several voter outreach projects in order to get the word out to our community to please VOTE YES for the April 26, 2016 Bond.
As part of this, we schedule (2) Honk & Wave Dates (Thursday April 7 and Monday April 25, 6:30-8:30am and 5-7pm)
We ask for Volunteers to Wave Signs and Wave at people on their way to work/school, etc. to remind them to vote.
This year we are utilizing a SIGN UP GENIUS to help with scheduling, which has all of the locations specified.
Also, on the same SIGN UP GENIUS link, we are scheduling community volunteers to help with our LIT DROP project. Basically, if you feel like getting your exercise in for the day/week, you take a bundle of our VIS Lit Drop Postcards (6×11 postcards that give information why to please vote yes!) and put them on doorsteps as you walk. You don’t need to talk to the homeowners, just leave the information for them to find and read on their doorsteps. This is a way for us to reach people in the community that maybe do not have kids in school, or don’t use social media.
Would you please share this link with your school community, friends, and students needing community service hours to help us with this effort? It really is A LOT of fun!
Here is the link for the Sign Up Genius for Honk & Waves and the Lit Drop:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c084eabae2aa0f94-2016/
IEA Teacher Postcard Stamping Party:
Korista Smith-Barney, our PTSA Council Secretary, is working with Doug Jones (IEA President) to help put stamps on the 13,000 Postcards that our Issaquah teachers (from every school) have hand written messages in support of the bond to each of their students in their classrooms. Rather than do this alone, she is asking for us to help putting stamps on the postcards on Monday, March 14th, at the Issaquah Library. She has scheduled the Library Meeting room from 11am-5pm, so you can drop in ANYTIME during the day to help.
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040945aead2eab9-postcard
Thank you all again so much for your support and help getting the word out! We are 48 days away fromApril 26th!
February 29, 2016
Here are your weekly message points and JPG images. Thank you again so much helping get this information out to your school communities! Your efforts are a vital part of this campaign. Thank you!
Here are your weekly Bond fact/Message points and a JPG Image (or two) which you can post on your website, send out in your Enews, and/or put in your Newsletter. These jpg images can be used for posting on Facebook pages, websites, etc.
IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER:
All PTAs in Issaquah have endorsed the bond, which means you can advocate to “VOTE YES”. BUT, if you send that “VOTE YES” wording out – you need to use your own PTA database and your PTA needs to send out the info (can’t say VOTE YES through the School Enews or through the School Office database). Everyone can send out Facts about the Bond through the School’s news (so you can share the facts below) – just can’t say VOTE YES if you send it through the school!
HANDY LINKS TO INFORMATION:
ISD link to 2016 bond information page: http://www.issaquah.
ISD link to the facts & information sheet: http://issaquah.wednet.edu/
ISD link to the Capital Projects website: http://www.issaquah.
Link to VIS Webpage to endorse: http://www.visvote.
Today’s email of Bond Facts (see below) – you will find:
2 New Messaging Points & 2 JPG Images:
“Responsible Financing & Fiscal Responsibility”
“Responsible Financing & Cost Comparison”
Issaquah School Bond – Responsible Financing: The Issaquah School District is one of only a handful of districts in the nation with a Moody’s Aaa rating and an S&P AA+ rating. Only 0.45% of school districts nationwide have this distinction! This allows the district to borrow funds at a lower interest rate and therefore save taxpayers money.
Issaquah School Bond – Cost Comparison: The Issaquah School District builds top notch facilities at a cost per square foot that is on average lower than that of its neighboring districts.
VIS & IEA Teacher Postcards!
March 14th is IEA Teacher postcard stamping day! Our teachers have written personal messages to parents on 13,000 postcards, and VIS needs your help getting them ready to mail out to promote the passage of the April 26, 2016 bond. Whether you can stop in for 30 minutes or stay all day, your help is needed and appreciated!
http://www.signupgenius.com/
February 22, 2016
Last Monday 2/16 VIS sent you 2 messaging points, 2 JPG images, and 3 PDF files of bond facts translated into 3 languages – Mandarin, Korean and Spanish. It was the 1st day of Mid-Winter break, but we wanted to make sure that you still had your weekly facts! Please check your emails from last week to make sure you received that email. Even if you didn’t send them out last week, you can bank them for the future! 🙂
Every Monday VIS sends an email with a new Bond Facts and a JPG Image (or two) which you can post on your website, send out in your Enews, and/or put in your Newsletter. These jpg images can be used for posting on Facebook pages, websites, etc.
IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER:
All PTAs in Issaquah have endorsed the bond, which means you can advocate to “VOTE YES”. BUT, if you send that “VOTE YES” wording out – you need to use your own PTA database and your PTA needs to send out the info (can’t say VOTE YES through the School Enews or through the School Office database). Everyone can send out Facts about the Bond through the School’s news (so you can share the facts below) – just can’t say VOTE YES if you send it through the school!
HANDY LINKS TO INFORMATION:
ISD link to 2016 bond information page: http://www.issaquah.
ISD link to the facts & information sheet: http://issaquah.wednet.edu/
ISD link to the Capital Projects website: http://www.issaquah.
Link to VIS Webpage to endorse: http://www.visvote.
Today’s email of Bond Facts (see below) – you will find:
2 New Messaging Points & 2 JPG Images:
“Issaquah School Bond – A Few Facts”
“Issaquah School Bond – Enrollment & School Buildings”
Issaquah School Bond – A Few Facts: The Issaquah School District covers 100 square miles and five municipalities. We currently have 24 schools, housing 19,700 students. Since 2001, the ISD has increased its total building space from 36.2 square, but its energy consumption has decreased by 2%!
Issaquah School Bond – Enrollment & School Buildings: Our District has grown by nearly 5,000 students in the last ten years and is projected to grow an additional 1,500 to 2,000 students in the next five years. The attached chart shows how the ratio of students to school buildings has increased. More facilities are needed to meet the demand for classroom space.
February 15, 2016
THANK YOU for helping VIS get the word out to our Community about the bond. Thank you for sharing last Monday’s message points! Even though it is Mid-Winter Break (hope you will enjoy this week!) attached you will find this week’s Messaging Points, JPG images, and a few PDF documents for your to use in your Enews blasts, newsletters, PTA Facebook pages, etc. We are continuing to try and make this as easy as possible for you to copy and paste or import into your documents…please share this info with your communications team.
As promised, every Monday VIS sends an email with a new Bond Facts and a JPG Image (or two) which you can post on your website, send out in your Enews, and/or put in your Newsletter. Some people asked for these facts to post on their Facebook page, so these can be used for that too.
IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER:
All PTAs in Issaquah have endorsed the bond, which means you can advocate to “VOTE YES”. Remember, if you send that “YES” wording out – you need to use your own PTA database and your PTA needs to send out the info (can’t say VOTE YES through the School Enews or through the School Office database).
Everyone can send out Facts about the Bond through the School’s news. Just the VOTE YES part needs to be only through your PTA (schools can’t say VOTE YES, they can only present the facts.
FYI – LINKS TO INFORMATION:
Link to VIS Webpage to endorse: http://www.visvote.org/
ISD link to 2016 bond information page: http://www.issaquah.wednet.edu/2016-school-bond-feasibility
ISD link to the facts & information sheet: http://issaquah.wednet.edu/docs/default-source/district/bond/2016/bond-and-construction-fact-sheet-print.pdf?sfvrsn=2
ISD link to the Capital Projects website: http://www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/departments/CapProjects
In today’s email (see below) – you will find:
2 New Messaging Points & 2 JPG Images with those same message points in the graphic:
“What is the the 2016 Bond”
“How will the 2016 Bond impact taxes?”
PLUS:
3 PDF FIles – which are a Bond Fact Pages translated into 3 languages: Spanish, Korean, and Mandarin – please post on your websites
What is in the 2016 Bond?
• The construction of four new schools: The District has grown by more than 2,000 students in the past four years and is conservatively projected to add an additional 1,500 to 2,000 students in the next five years. This continued enrollment growth requires the addition of two new elementary schools, a 6th middle school and a 4th comprehensive high school.
• Property for school sites: The District must acquire the property needed for the new schools in the 2016 bond.
• Rebuild Pine Lake Middle School: Originally built in 1974, PLMS will be completely reconstructed on site, providing a new learning environment with updated technology and energy efficient operations.
• Critical Expansion/Modernization of six existing elementary schools: In order to accommodate growing student populations and provide for State funded Full Day Kindergarten, Discovery, Endeavor, Sunset, Cougar Ridge, Maple Hills and Clark Elementary schools will all be expanded/modernized by four to eight classrooms each.
How will the 2016 Bond impact taxes?
In relation to current property taxes, if the $533.5M bond is approved, residents can expect to see NO increase if the tax rate if the bond is approved. The tax rate will remain at or below the current $4.14 per $1000 of assessed property value.
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2016_Bond_Info-Chinese
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February 08, 2016
Thank you all SO MUCH for your help with this campaign. Your involvement will help get the word out about how important the 2016 Bond is for our community. Your help is so important and I thank you all so much!
We have gotten requests to send you some information that you can share in your Enews, Newsletters, website, etc. We are trying to make this as easy as possible for you to copy and paste or put into your documents…please share this info with your communications team.
(Please let me know if you have any other ideas for what I can send you to make this easy for you and your PTA to help us.)
Every Monday VIS will be sending you an email with a couple of Bond Facts and a JPG Image (or two) which you can post on your website, send out in your Enews, and/or put in your Newsletter. Some people asked for these facts to post on their Facebook page, so these can be used for that too.
Also Attached is the Volunteers for Issaquah Schools Bus Logo with the April 26th vote by date on it 🙂
Since schools usually have a link to our PTA webpages we need to put this logo 1 click off the main page – on your VIS or Advocacy Page.
Please remind your school community to vote early – Spring Break is right in the middle of the ballot return time, so a friendly reminder to possibly “Vote Early!” or “Vote before the break” may be helpful in getting ballots in!
IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER:
For those of you who have already Endorsed the Bond (THANK YOU SO MUCH!) You can advocate for the bond – you can say “PLEASE VOTE YES” or “VOTE YES”. But remember, if you send that “YES” wording out – you need to use your own PTA database and your PTA needs to send out the info (can’t say VOTE YES through the School Enews or through the School Office database).
Everyone can send out Facts about the Bond through the School’s news. Just the VOTE YES part needs to be only through your PTA (schools can’t say VOTE YES, they can only present the facts…) Hope that is not too confusing. Just want to make sure that we follow these rules – it is very important…
LINKS TO INFORMATION:
Link to VIS Webpage to endorse: http://www.visvote.
ISD link to 2016 bond information page: http://www.issaquah.
ISD link to the facts & information sheet: http://issaquah.wednet.edu/
ISD link to the Capital Projects website: http://www.issaquah.
Here ARE this week’s facts to share, post, etc. (and thank you again for your help!) (there are 2 facts, paired with a graphic image below for each fact)
What is a School Bond?
The State of Washington does not fund the regular building or maintenance of public schools. Instead, local voters must approve school bonds for this purpose. Similar to a mortgage, bonds may be paid for over 20 years, helping to keep annual costs lower for taxpayers. Issaquah School District’s current bonds are, on average, paid off in nine years. The shorter duration saves taxpayers’ money. For more information, visit our 2016 school bond information page on the ISD website. For information on current and past school construction, visit the Capital Projects website!
Issaquah School Bond – Growth and Building
Our District has grown by nearly 5,000 students in the last ten years and is projected to grow an additional 1,500 to 2,000 students in the next five years. This chart shows how the ratio of students to school buildings has increased. More facilities are needed to meet the demand for classroom space. For more information, visit our 2016 school bond information page on the ISD website. For information on current and past school construction, visit the Capital Projects website!
