Three Odessa levies on the ballot

ODESSA—The school district here prefers to run its operational and capital improvement levies on an annual basis instead of on a two-or-three year basis. This year, there’s a third levy to raise funds for a new school bus facing district voters in a special election Tuesday, Feb. 14.

“Typically, here they’ve done a yearly levy,” superintendent John Bruce said. “If it’s on a two-year or three-year basis…that doesn’t account for inflation.”

This year the first ask to voters is to pass an educational programs and operational levy that would collect $600,000 in 2024 and charge taxpayers approximat...