OXNARD : Options After Bond Defeat to Be Weighed
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Following the defeat of a $45-million school bond, the Oxnard High School District board of trustees will hold a study session this morning to discuss what options they have left to deal with overcrowding in the district.
District officials were hoping to use money from the bond measure to build a seventh high school. But tax-weary voters rejected the measure in a special election April 14.
Supt. Ian Kirkpatrick said the board will meet at 8 a.m. today to discuss what to do next.
“We have to take a look at our assets and liabilities,” he said. “We have to look at where we are and where we want to go.”
Anticipating passage of the bond measure, officials had already begun eminent domain proceedings to seize a 50-acre parcel for the new high school on Gonzalez Avenue between Oxnard Boulevard and Rose Avenue. The district had also committed to spending $850,000 a year on a loan to purchase the site.
Kirkpatrick said it is possible that the district could back off from purchasing the new high school site.
“Lots of things are possible,” he said.
Kirkpatrick said the board will also discuss today what to do with some undeveloped property the district owns near Camarillo High School.
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