There will be a second special meeting to discuss a proposed parcel tax for the June ballot. The board of the Cabrillo Unified School District is holding a second meeting Monday night (tonight) at 6:45pm at the District office at 498 Kelly Avenue, next to Hatch School.
Based on the discussion at the first special meeting, on Thursday March 2, the parcel tax will be between $150 and $200 per parcel. Some of the uses considered at the meeting on Thursday were class size reduction, special classes, and middle school transportation.
The agenda calls for “RECONVENE OPEN SESSION - 6:45 PM”. Not the usual 7 PM
Where are the people who complained about the previous City Council “rushing things through”? Of course, as I recall, they are the same people who contributed to the campaigns of the new City Council members and CCWD members and are the ones who contributed to CUSD members Schreurs, Wilson and Gardner.
The survey last October indicated a severe lack of trust in the CUSD Board. I sent an email <http://www.cusd.info> to the CUSD Board Thursday morning recommending including a clause that the parcel tax would expire if they changed the school site from the Cunha site or withdrew from receiving Federal Funding (to avoid NCLB accountability).
Including the language would hurt nothing unless the School Board majority simply has cynically acted to get a tax passed after four failed attempts and then just go back to their old ways. It is curious that this tax proposal has been underway since last October and yet there is still no hard copy of it available to the public to review.
Ken Johnson