LGUSD facilities bond measure passes:- The support of the residents of Los Gatos for the $163 million “Measure CC” bond to renovate classrooms and other buildings at the Los Gatos Union School District was confirmed this past Friday with 65.76% of the vote.
LGUSD facilities bond measure passes
The bond needed to pass with 55% of the vote in order to be approved. The unofficial results from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters (with a vote centers designated “completely reported”) .
Showed that there were 8,028 votes cast from the Yes side, while there were 3,424% of votes cast against the proposal (4,180 votes).
Despite the fact that the Los Gatos Union School District “offers our children one of the best educations in the State,” the Yes of CC camp asserts that an excessive number of buildings in the district are older than fifty years.
It was argued on the website safeandstronglgschools.com that Measure CC would provide locally controlled funding for elementary and middle school classrooms that support programs such as STEAM, literacy, music, and the performing arts.
All of these programs will help us maintain the high-achieving, well-rounded education that our students require.
The bond issue had support from a number of individuals, including former County Supervisor Mike Wasserman, Councilmember Rob Rennie, Loma Prieta Joint Union School District Trustee Denise Ramon Herrera, and Tina Nguyen-Lee, a special education teacher at R.J. Fisher Middle School.
Audits and monitoring are built into the system, and there is no money going to pay administrators. The system is meant to levy a fee of thirty dollars for every one hundred thousand dollars of assessed value, which amounts to an average of eleven and a half million dollars per year.
Not a single penny would leave the local district’s jurisdiction. Meanwhile, on Friday, support for the “Measure HH” parcel tax renewal in the Lakeside Joint School District had increased from 63.29% to 64.59% of the vote (166 votes).
This is in contrast to the 35.41% of the vote (91 votes) in Santa Clara County (with all precincts being considered “completely reported”).
On the other hand, in Santa Cruz County, support for the proposal decreased from 74.16% of the vote to 73.99% (219 votes), while the number of those who opposed it increased to 26.01% (77).
Therefore, out of a total of 566 votes cast, 385 people voted in favor of it, while 168 people voted against it. This indicates that 68.02% of voters approved it.
Consequently, as the school week came to a close, it appeared as though the District had just managed to preserve the minimum of two thirds of the funding required to keep education services running.
Evan Low has yielded to Sam Liccardo in the contest for the Congressional seat representing District 16. In Santa Clara County, Liccardo received 58.62% of the vote (102,813 votes), while Low received 41.38% of the vote (72,567 votes).
In San Mateo County, Liccardo received 63.14% of the vote (25,289 votes), which was higher than Low’s 36.86% vote share (14,762 votes).