ALAMEDA — Measure B, a $298 million bond measure for Alameda Unified facility upgrades on the June 7 poll, is trailing by a slender margin, however district officers haven’t given up hope.
The measure wants 55% voter approval to move and had 53.51% as of late Thursday afternoon, when about 40% of the 21,000 votes solid in Alameda had been counted.
“We stay hopeful that voters supported this measure, which was designed to offer much-needed fundamental repairs and upgrades to our colleges,” stated Alameda Unified Superintendent Pasquale Scuderi in an e-mail.
If the measure is accredited, property homeowners within the college district can be taxed $45 for each $100,000 of their parcel’s assessed worth for the subsequent 35 years. Somebody with a $1 million Alameda dwelling would see an annual tax of $450 per 12 months.
When added to the opposite taxes Alameda Unified already is assessing, Measure B would carry the overall quantity that the common house owner within the district pays to $1,940 per 12 months.
Cash from the bond measure would go towards upgrading school rooms, modernizing older buildings, changing previous plumbing, enhancing accessibility and different enhancements on the district’s colleges.
Neither the district nor the measure’s opponents have been able to concede or settle for victory whereas the outcomes of the mail-in ballots are nonetheless being tallied.
“Premised on the notion that it doesn’t move, I presume that is simply Alameda voters and taxpayers saying sufficient they usually need higher governance,” mother or father David Howard, an opponent, stated in an interview.
Howard and another opponents stated if the college district wants cash to improve its amenities, it ought to search voter approval of a parcel tax, which might keep away from having to pay curiosity.
College districts generally finance main capital enhancements with bond measures to be able to get the cash up entrance to pay for the tasks. Nevertheless, bond measures are loans and districts should pay curiosity on these loans.
Alameda Unified has 16 colleges with 9,500 college students.