CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Extending Tax for New Schools Urged

California homebuilders proposed a $26-billion school construction plan that would be funded by extending the temporary quarter-cent sales tax increase for earthquake relief as long as 25 years. The plan would use money from the tax increase to repay $20 billion in proposed general obligation bonds for classroom construction, said Owen Waters, vice president of the California Building Industry Assn. Builders would contribute another $6 billion by continuing to pay developers fees, Waters told a Capitol news conference. The quarter-cent sales tax increase, passed last November to raise $790 million for repairing damage from the Bay Area earthquake, expires in December. “Overwhelmingly, the public wants schools built now,” Waters said. “Our target is to have a package of bills and any necessary constitutional changes available for the November, 1990, ballot. This will require legislative action prior to the summer recess.”