CAMARILLO : Board Undecided on School Bond Survey
The Pleasant Valley School District in Camarillo has delayed a decision on whether to spend $15,500 for an opinion poll to gauge support for a $6-million school bond issue.
The district is debating whether to place the bond issue on the November ballot. If voters approved the measure, the money would be used to build a new school to ease overcrowding in the district.
If the bond passed, property taxes would increase a maximum of $50 per year, said Assistant Supt. Howard Hamilton.
The district has until July to put the measure on the November ballot but could decide to hold a special election instead, either in March or June of 1991, Hamilton said.
Some school board members said Thursday that the opinion poll is an unnecessary expense, while others withheld their opinions until after a presentation May 3 by a political consultant on how to run a bond issue campaign.
Overcrowding is so severe in the district that at Las Colinas Elementary School, 221 of the 1,025 students will be sent to Monte Vista Intermediate School in September.
The last two schools the district built--Las Colinas and Santa Rosa--were funded by developer fees. But officials said they only have enough of those funds left to pay for one-third of the cost of a new school.
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