New Trustee, Higher Fees on School Docket
Filling a board vacancy and considering higher fees on new real estate developments are among the topics on today’s agenda for the Anaheim City School District’s trustees.
The new board member will serve out the rest of the late Jeanne Blackwell’s four-year term, which expires in November. Blackwell, first elected to the board in 1983, resigned in February, citing poor health. She died three days later.
Earlier this month, the four remaining trustees interviewed nine candidates for the vacancy: Ronald Banderas, Barbara C. Gonzalez, Thomas Holguin, Harald G. Martin, Susan Preus, Gregory R. Ramsay, Patrice P. Roggenkamp, Jerome M. Silverman and Avanda S. Williams.
Trustees are expected to make a decision today, after which they will seek public comment on a proposal to raise the school facility fees levied on new developments.
Under the plan, residential fees would be increased to $1.84 a square foot, from $1.72. Commercial and industrial fees would rise to 30 cents a square foot, from 28 cents.
The increase would be evenly split between the Anaheim City School District and the Anaheim Union High School District.
The board meets at 7 p.m. at Loara Elementary School, 1601 W. Broadway. Information: (714) 517-8500.
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