The Palos Verdes Peninsula school board this evening approved taking its planned parcel tax election to voters on a mail-only ballot.
The board voted 4-0 to approved the plan, with Barbara Lucky absent. Ballots will be due June 23.
The move follows a March 11 board vote to rescind its earlier approval of a regular go-to-the-polls parcel tax election. Voters will weigh a four-year $165 parcel tax, which will come on top of an existing $209 tax that was originally approved by voters in 2003 and extended in 2007.
Superintendent Walker Williams said county elections officials informed the school district that the regular election would have cost about $600,000, while a mail-only ballot would cost about a quarter of that.
The new tax would cover about half of a $6 million shortfall that the district faces over the next 16 months.
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