District board adopts resolution calling $3.85 million supplemental-levy election for Nov. 4

The Board of Trustees of Joint School District No. 331 adopted a resolution on Aug. 27, 2025 calling a supplemental levy election for Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025 to ask voters to authorize a supplemental levy of $3,850,000 per year for two years, beginning July 1, 2026.

The written resolution in the board packet cites Section 33-802(3), Idaho Code, and instructs the clerk to coordinate election materials with the Minidoka, Cassia, Jerome and Lincoln county clerks under Title 34, Idaho Code. The packet includes a full form of the ballot and the statement that "the estimated average annual cost to the taxpayer on the proposed levy is a tax of $127.40 per $100,000 of taxable assessed value, per year, based on current conditions." The resolution document is stamped "ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 27th day of August, 2025." No roll-call vote tally or mover/second is recorded in the packet materials provided.

Why it matters: the levy, if approved by a simple majority, would provide up to $3.85 million annually for two years for district operating expenses. The packet frames the increase as enabled in part by retiring existing debt and presents a proposed allocation of the funds across student learning, safety and technology, equipment and campus repairs.

What's next: the district instructed its clerk to submit ballot and notice forms to the county clerks on or before Aug. 29, 2025 and identifies Nov. 4, 2025 as the election date; the packet states county commissioners will act as the canvassing board under state law.