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Thursday, October 22, 2015
Another Special Meeting
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More OUSD chaos
Tabled Bond items come back as a
Special OUSD Board Meeting
tonight
After the Orange
Unified School Board met in a Regular Meeting on Thursday October 15, 2015 to
vote on three items on the posted Agenda that was to lay the ground work
for some type of 2016 Facilities Bond election- the OUSD Surridge
Majority "tabled" items related to the Bond over objections of
Trustee Kathy Moffat. The official reason was that Trustee Timothy Surridge was
absent from the Board meeting.
Now a week later, with
Trustee Kathy Moffat absent-but teleconferencing a Special Meeting has been
called to address
October 15th's
Agenda Action Item 12 C (page 10) asks the OUSD Board to approve a
subcommittee's recommendation to hire Irvine based Fieldman, Rolapp &
Associates as OUSD's General Obligation Bond Fiscal Advisor ( the
firm also has experience with Community Facility Districts). While the
firm's service fee is not listed, it will only get paid if a Bond election is
successful. (See below for more information.)
On the October 15th
Agenda is Action Item 12 D to give the
OUSD staff direction on preparing for the possibility special tax districts
called School Facility Improvement Districts (aka Community Facility Districts)
now comes back to the OUSD Board as the Special Meeting Agenda Item 10 A.
These School Facility Improvement
Districts would allow specific areas in Greater Orange- that have traditionally
voted in a majority for the past failed OUSD Facility Bonds- to approve bonds
for their neighborhood's special district schools by approving a special
Mello-Roos tax assessment for their specific district. The firm recommended in
the Agenda Item to study the OUSD demographics for these specific special
districts is Escondido
Item 12 E on the
October 15th Agenda to give the OUSD staff direction on the OUSD Facilities
Master Plan comes back a week later as Item 10 B.
The agenda item reviews
the three different facility assessments OUSD procured in 2003, 2013 and 2014.
The agenda item offers four options to the OUSD Board: a six month Facility
Condition Assessment ( estimated cost $150,000); a 9 month
"update" of the Long Range Facility Master Plan-last done in 2003
(estimated cost $300,000); a 12 month "new comprehensive"
Long Range Facility Master Plan (estimated cost $500,000); or take no
action on Facility Master Plans.
To see the 10/22/15 Agenda please click on SPECIAL MEETING
