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Jim Horn's avatar

“While the state pays a large share of the cost of educating our students,” said Deborah Drehmel, President, SUSD Board of Trustees, “communities are expected to fund facility improvements.”

Actually, in general the state pays for 60% of facility modernization costs and 50% of new construction costs. See the state handbook at https://www.dgs.ca.gov/-/media/Divisions/OPSC/Services/Guides-and-Resources/SFP_Hdbk_ADA.pdf.

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Brandy's avatar

Sebastopol has over 10 public schools. This ballot measure only supports two of them. I would race to ballot to vote for a measure that used property tax to support the infrastructure needs of all of our public schools.

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