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Wednesday, May 07, 2014
OUSD: Peralta, School Bond and Surplus Budget
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May 8th Orange
Unified Board of Trustees meeting includes...
Peralta, School Bond and a Surplus
Budget
Ortega proposes Peralta Lease for a 1 Year extension
The
Thursday May 8, 2014 Orange Unified School District Board of Education Meeting
Agenda Item 12 A (agenda pages 7-9) has Board President John Ortega proposing
that the current Ground Lease Agreement between
Orange Unified and the Peralta Golf Partnership that runs the Super
Sports Golf and Recreation Center at the former Peralta School site be extended
for one year from the end of the lease's current term. The current $200,000 a year lease is set to
expire on March 31, 2015.
The one-year extension will side-step the
on-going Peralta Site controversy until March
2016-well after the anticipated November 2014 OUSD Bond election and that
month's OUSD Trustee elections for the seats of four trustees. Two of the seats
up for the November 2014 election are for proponents of selling the Peralta
site- Timothy Surridge and Rick Ledesma and two are for seats held by trustees
opposing the sale- Diane Singer and Kathy Moffat. Control of the OUSD Board between the two
opposing sides of the issue for the next two years will also be decided in
November.
In
November of 2016, John Ortega, Dr. Alexia Deligianni and Mark Wayland's seats
are up for re-election. Ortega has supported the sale of the Peralta site,
while Deligianni (who represents the
Peralta neighborhood) has sided against the site's sale since the controversy
over the high density apartment lease proposed for the site exploded into
controversy.
Wayland,
who originally supported the high density lease, changed his mind during his
re-election campaign- then changed back to supporting the lease, then the sale of the site to a developer after his successful
re-election.
OU$D Bond WATCH 2014
OUSD 2014 Bond items fill May 8th Agenda
Results
of the OUSD 2014 Bond Feasibility Study will be revealed in Information Item 13
A (agenda page 32) at the May 8th OUSD
Board Meeting. The research by Encinitas
based True North Research includes a telephone poll of 400 registered voters
likely to vote in the November 2014 election.
Following
that presentation, the OUSD Board will examine a "draft resolution"
for calling a 2014 Bond Election. Agenda
Item 13 B ( pages 33-50) lays out a $296 million Bond Measure with each of
OUSD's comprehensive high schools each receiving an equal $74 million
each.
The
OUSD Trustees just completed a successful
around-the-district tour that included high-end architectural renderings
of go-for-broke concepts for each of OUSD's high schools. Those popular
concepts however would require multiple successive bonds to make a reality. The
initial starting point "Project List" provided in the "draft" resolution deals with the
reality of a $296 million dollar Bond
spread over four high schools in dire straits.
The
resolution outlines five areas for a district approved "Project
List":
- Item (i) from the
list includes roof, plumbing and electrical repairs and replacements.
- Item (ii) lists "Providing facilities and
equipment for college, career, and technical education classes".
- Item (iii) lists "Improving student safety and
security systems".
- Item (iv) states "Update instructional technology
in the classroom"
- Item (v) includes
earthquake safety upgrades and upgrades needed to meet legal accesses
requirements by the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA).
The
"draft" resolution includes a June 2014 signing date.
The
OUSD Administration has also placed numerous items on the automatic Consent
Agenda that directly deal with a 2014 Facilities Bond to be approved
automatically by the OUSD Board from the General Fund. ( Two of the items
payment is contingent on a bond passing.)
Consent Item 14 D:
page
56
Jana
Mills-$90,000 to manage construction contract services for modernization
contracts
page
57
Kegent
Advisors-$80,000 financial advisors for Bonds including structure, terms and
timing and document review (contingent on Bond passage).
page
59
Public
Economics-$5,000 bond analysis and consulting services
page
60
Stradling,
Yocca, Carlson and Rauth-$85,000 legal services for Bond resolution and project
lists ( contingent on Bond passage).
Conservative OUSD budget for 2014-2015
at $67 million
May
8th Agenda Item 12 E (pages 29-31) fulfills the requirement for a public
hearing on the 2013-14 actual monies and the estimated monies for the 2014-2015
OUSD Budget.
The
conservative estimates in Item 12 E
show the proposals involved in Gov. Brown's Local Control Funding Formula
(LCFF) appear to provide the district with an unexpected $17.2 million windfall resulting in a conservative
$67.5 million 2014-2015 budget. That
budget includes a $7.3 million legally required reserve (3%) leaving a $59.2
million "Unappropriate Amount".
Elsewhere
in the May 8th Agenda, Item 13 F (pages 63-67 - mistakenly identified on page
63 as "Item No. 14 F") estimates the 2013-14 Proposition 30 Education
Protection Account (EPA) at $23. 8 million and
the 2014-15 totals at $22.3
million,
Passed
by state voters as part of Gov. Brown's 2012 tax package, the OUSD Funds in the
chart on Agenda page 65 (Expenditures through: June 30, 2014) have the $23.8
million in LCFF Sources codes 8010-8099 ( Maintenance/ Facilities codes) and
Instruction codes 1000-1099 (Instruction/Special Education codes).
For
a complete list of the codes and allowable uses of the EPA accounts CLICK ON
For
a complete list of frequently asked questions about EPA accounts CLICK ON
Item
14 J on the May 8th Agenda (page 84)
acknowledges receipt of a charter school application from the Nopilhuan K-8
Charter School. The school is based on "biliteracy" . "Biliteracy"
is a educational/political movement that has developed in response to English
Only mandates. (For more information CLICK ON Californians Together).
The
OUSD staff will review the application and make a recommendation at a future
Board meeting.
San
Diego Unified also received an application from the Nopilhuan "founders".
That application can be seen by Clicking on: SPAM CHARTER.
INSIDE the OUSD May 8th Agenda
Closed
Session Item 4 B
New principals will be named for
McPherson Magnet, Portola and Cerro
Villa Middle
School
Closed
Session Item 4 D
Instructions on negotiations on
sale of Riverdale Site to Rancho Santiago Community College District and the
City of Anaheim .
Announcements
9 E and 9 F
Proclamations of May19-23 as
Classified Employees Week and May 14th as day of the Teacher.
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING Thursday
May 8, 2014
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD District Office
CLOSED SESSION- 5:30 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm
For AGENDA-CLICK ON
For more information call the OUSD
Superintendent’s office at 714-628-4040
For budgeting questions call Business Services at
714-628-4015
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