Schools, minimum wage on some ballots

Schools, minimum wage on some ballots

A special election Feb. 13 will have voters in school districts in Pierce and King counties and deciding school funding measures and a minimum-wage proposal in one King County city.

The school districts in Pierce County include Clover Park, Puyallup, Tacoma, Sumner-Bonney Lake, Eatonville, Auburn, Carbonado, Orting, and Yelm.

The county elections department mailed ballots to voters Jan. 26.  Feb. 13 is the date when voters must submit their ballots by mail or in official dropboxes. Dropbox locations and other election-related information, including specifics about the ballot measures, is available at piercecountyelections.org and (253) 798-7430.

In King County, ballots and voters’ pamphlets were mailed Jan. 24 to voters in the Auburn, Tahoma, Tukwila, and Vashon Island school districts, and to voters in Renton, which has an initiative that would create a minimum wage for jobs in the city. More information is available from the county’s elections department at kingcounty.gov and 206-296-8683.