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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
OUSD meets on 2016 Bond items
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Popular Sovereignty for OUSD Communities
and their high schools
Trustees to vote on two School Improvement Districts for possible high school bonds
Faced
with polling data that shows the infamous "55 Divided" is still alive
and well in the Greater Orange Communities when it comes to eventual voting to
approve a possible 2016 Facilities Bond for Orange Unified School District High Schools, this Thursday June 23, 2016 in a Special Meeting,
the OUSD Trustees will be voting on resolutions to move forward to form two
School Facilities Improvement Districts (SFID).
Agenda
Action Item 11 C will be vote for further polling on what would could be three
potential bond items, a district-wide bond measure and polling for the two SFID
bonds. One potential political problem facing
the district is with each improvement district area having two bond measures, a
district-wide bond and a separate improvement district bond, it could lead to
voter confusion and be seen by some as the school district asking for double
the money. This presents the pro-bond
forces under C.A.R.E. with twice as much pro-bond messaging.
The
two resolutions in Action Items 11 A and B on the June 23rd Agenda move the
process forward to create two special assessment districts as an inventive solution
to the reality that a minority of OUSD voters in certain parts of the sprawling
school district have preventing voters from updating their schools in the
neighborhoods that have overwhelmingly supported the three previous Facilities
Bonds.
The
proposed School Facilities Improvement District 1 will encompass neighborhoods (attendance
areas) that feed into El Modena and Orange High Schools-areas that have
historically supported the previous bond elections.
School
Facilities Improvement District 2 will encompass the neighborhoods (attendance
areas) that feed into Canyon and Villa Park H.S- areas that have historically
not supported the previous bond elections.
The
two resolutions in Action Items 11 A and B on the June 23rd Agenda estimate
voters in both new SFID's will eventually be asked to each approve $200 million
dollar bonds to update and modernize the two comprehensive high schools in each
of the SFID's.
With
past voting data and new polling showing the 2016 Measure K and two other OUSD
facilities bonds passing in the areas that will be included in the proposed SFID
1 (El Modena/Orange) and failing in the neighborhoods that feed into the SFID 2
(Canyon/Villa Park)- it is not hard to imagine that with SFIDs the voters in
both areas are going to the kind of schools they want when they vote. Truly, basic "popular
sovereignty".
Ironically,
the long traditional halves of Greater Orange's 55 Divide, the "haves"
and the "have-nots", could dramatically and quickly be switched with the
expected passage of a bond in SFID 1 and not in SFID 2. With modern remodeled schools
leading to increasing property values in the western part of the "divide"
leading that half to become the new "haves" (including the already
remodeled middle and elementary schools), the neighborhoods in the eastern side
with decaying and outdated schools will become the new "have nots" in
a post-bond SFID vote split.
Well
documented statistics show results of decaying schools could also lead to declining
student enrollment in the areas where parents can pay for private schools. It also
would not be a stretch to then see more instances of attempted district
secessions like the recent Panorama
Heights
If
the resolutions for the intent to form the two assessment districts pass on
Thursday, a Public Hearing will be scheduled for July 21 for public input into
the formation of the two SFIDs.
INSIDE the OUSD Agenda for Thursday June
23
Trustee John Ortega will be
teleconferencing from Washington
D.C.
- Agenda Item 4 C: Superintendent Michael Christiansen's Employee Evaluation continues in Closed Session.
NEXT OUSD SPECIAL BOARD
MEETING June 23, 2016
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
CLOSED SESSION- 5:30 pm
OUSD Open Session: 6:00 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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