Notice is hereby given by the undersigned Clerk of the Stevensville School District No. 2, State of Montana that a School Election will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The polling site will be the Stevensville Elementary School Gymnasium at 300 Park Ave, Stevensville, MT. The polls will open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 8:00 p.m. at Stevensville. A qualified registered elector who wishes to vote an absentee ballot may request one from the Ravalli County Election Office located at 215 S 4th Street, Hamilton, MT 59840. Absentee ballots will be available until 12:00 noon on November 2, 2026.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY AND DEPRECIATION LEVY
for Stevensville School District No. 2, Ravalli County, November 3, 2026.
PROPOSITION
Shall the district be authorized to levy an additional $75,000.00 DOLLARS (Seventy Five Thousand Dollars) per year for 10 years and being approximately 2.80 mills for the purpose of purchasing, renting, repairing and maintaining technological equipment, including computers and computer network access, cloud computing services for technology infrastructure, platform, software, network, storage, security, data, database, test environment curriculum, or desktop virtualization purposes, including any subscription or any license-based or pay-per-use service that is accessed over the internet or other remote network to meet the district’s information technology and other needs, and the associated technical training for school district personnel.
Passage of this proposal will increase the taxes on a home with a market value of $100,000 by approximately $2.13, on a home with a market value of $300,000 by approximately $6.39, and on a home with a market value of $600,000 by approximately $13.65. An increase in property taxes may lead to an increase in rental costs.
This request is in addition to $75,000.00 DOLLARS previously authorized as a perpetual levy and, if this proposition is approved, will hereby be limited to 10 years.
A qualified registered elector who will be absent from the district during the time the election is being conducted may: a) vote in person at the County Election Office as soon as the ballots are available and until noon the day before the election; b) make a written request, signed by the applicant and addressed to the County Election Administrator, that the ballot be mailed to an address other than the address that appears on the registration card.
The County Election Administrator’s Office is located at 215 South 4th Street, Hamilton, MT 59840. Phone number 406-363-6550.
If you miss this regular registration deadline (30 days prior to the election), you may still register at the county election office. The late registration certificate may be exchanged for a ballot at the county election office until the close of polls on Election Day.
Dated this 5th day of October, 2026
Glenda Kearney, District Clerk/Business Manager
Stevensville School District