Times: Three Contra Costa districts asking voters to OK tax measures
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 22 March 2010 — 2 comments below »
The WCCUSD associate superintendent says that remaining funds from a previous bond measure includes money to build Ohlone Elementary… “West Contra Costa district administrators estimate their $380 million bond Measure D could cost property owners up to $48 per $100,000 of assessed valuation for bonds to be paid off over 30 years. This is in addition to no more than $60 per $100,000 in assessed valuation they are already paying for the district’s Measure J bond measure voters approved in 2005, said Bill Fay, associate superintendent. The district still has more than $100 million available from that measure, Fay said. He estimates it will be spent on projects such as building a new Ohlone Elementary School in Hercules. Voters in the district, which includes about 70 schools, are also paying taxes on bond measures passed in 1998, 2000 and 2002.“
WCCCSD is nearly one-half billion (yes, that’s a ‘b’) dollars in debt, yet your kids are learning in the equivalent of mobile homes. Does anyone wonder why every school isn’t a palace? Why every kid doesn’t get a free laptop computer? How much more money will we pour down this unquenchable beast of inefficiency that is WCCCSD before we demand accountability?
@ Jeff Boore — At least one more bond measure first. Then accountability.