Maybe all that unused COVID money should be tapped first. Or, maybe gov newsom [spelling corrected] could use the excess tax money that’s been hoarded for greasing the ‘squeaky wheels’ that seem to pop up in California politics, frequently. Use that.

So, more deferred maintenance instead of using deferred maintenance funds. And $105mm from Measure I1 ($35mm for a new elementary school is unbonded), meaning there is plenty of money to spend on schools (more fences?) and in an economy that is possibly headed for a recession. Nope. Too much ($420mm); too soon.

Absolutely not.

These board members are criminals with tax payers money.

No. Deliver on the past promises first and completely

Thank goodness the funds from selling the district parcel isn't up for voters to chime in on. This way there will be a 'new' Village HS vs the crumbling building(s) they have now.

I agree re: FIRST deliver on past promises

No more bonds. The schools all got so much Covid money they don't know how to spend it. They haven't spent all the money from the last bond they passed. They are getting meal money to feed every kid under 18 breakfast and lunch and I doubt that it is needed in Pleasanton. I will vote no.

There are needs—the gyms at Amador and Foothill, for example. So if you want a bond to pass, make it for those specific projects—$100mm?—and not tearing down, for example, Amador’s theater. PUSD received $270mm with I1, hasn’t used $70mm of it, and hasn’t built a needed elementary school. Think differently School Board, you are not getting big money, especially when you keep in the clause saying you don’t have to build what’s on the list even if you have the funds.

In 2011, the school district was found to have illegally refinanced bond debt and taking additional debt, unapproved by voters. Daniel Borenstein wrote on the topic in the East Bay Times and quoted the consultant hired to determine what happened: “As Raineri told the school board last week, ‘It’s part of what goes on in our society that business is aggressive in pursuing its needs. And that’s why government has to be aggressive about pursuing the public good.’” Web Link

A $450MM bond is not pursuing the public good; it is an outrageous money grab.