Friday, 14 September 2007 02:09
School District May Consider Another Bond for June 08
At this week’s Amador County Unified School
District Board of Trustees meeting, a future facilities general obligation bond
was discussed.Superintendent Mike Carey told the Board, during his report, that
he and other district officials had been in contact with the consultants that
helped the district pass the last bond measure, measure F. That bond was for
11-million dollars which, Dr Carey says, was matched with state funding to give
the district a value of 25-million dollars in badly needed improvements.
The district is still expecting growth at some
point, although Assistant Superintendent in charge of business Barbara Murray
reported to the Board that this year’s student attendance numbers are down over
160-kids from last year. The district wants to be prepared and ahead of the
curve says Dr. Carey, and he and the district’s consultants feel that a bond
issue in at least the amount of the 20-25 million dollar range may be an option
in the June 08 election cycle. The district feels that several facts will play
to their advantage with the public. First, Dr Carey stated that the district completed every project that
was promised from the 2002 bond. Secondly, the repayment for taxpayers
on their property tax bills is currently at 13 dollars per 100,000 of a
property’s assessed value. That is lower than what was reported to taxpayers at
the time of the bond’s passage- when the estimates were closer to 18 dollars
per 100000 dollars of assessed value
