School tax

Portland School District is going to be out of some money, as they don't plan on renewing $33.5 million in property taxes to pay for education. So the article in the Oregonian says that this money pays for 280 teachers and other staff (I wonder how many staff and how many teachers). Yet there is this other big fat tax sitting out there that costs all of us in the county (not just the district) every year, and that's the Multnomah County Income tax (on of only about a half dozen such local income taxes in the nation). It only has one more year to collect from the peasants, so what are they going to do then? Personally, if I had to make a choice, I would want the County tax ended now and another bond passed.
Fortunately, even though the article sounds skeptical, I think that the state budget is going to help out a lot. The economy has picked up and Oregon jobs are at the same level that they were at in 2000, before the recession.