Measure P: School bond campaign filing shows $25K from four donors

May 27, 2016
Santa Paula News

Measure P is headed to the June 7 ballot with strong financial support according to the filing for the $39.6 million bond measure to improve Santa Paula elementary schools. 

Monetary contributions received as of May 21 for the Santa Paula Citizens for Quality Schools - Yes on P is $25,000 from four sources including those that could have a financial interest in the bond passing.

Voters will consider the measure, which is projected to cost property owners approximately $60 per $100,000 in property evaluation annually, which needs a 55 percent plus one vote margin to pass.

The Santa Paula Unified School District has been studying the bond measure for about three years and identified $58 million for critical needs. To meet the $58 million needed the $39.6 million bond would be supplemented by $1.5 million in developer fees, $10 million from SPUSD existing funds and grants of about $5 million.

If approved, the bond money would be used to modernize classrooms, restrooms and other school facilities; replace leaky roofs; construct new science labs and classrooms; improve access to computers; upgrade outdated electrical and plumbing systems; and provide ventilation and air-conditioning.

New media and literacy centers — such as the one recently unveiled at Glen City School — would be at each school, new technology would be introduced and furniture and other classroom upgrades undertaken to improve the learning environment at Santa Paula’s six elementary schools and one middle school, campuses that average 70 years old.

Limoneira Co., now breaking ground at East Area 1 for the Harvest at Limoneira development, which will include 1,500 homes, sports parks and an elementary school, donated $10,000 to the campaign for the measure.

Jones Hall, a professional law corporation based in San Francisco, donated $5,000. According to its website, “From its inception, Jones Hall has been dedicated solely to the practice of municipal bond law, and has grown to include bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel services on all forms of tax-exempt and taxable financings for public agencies in California.”

Another $5,000 donor to the Measure P campaign is Flewelling & Moody whose website notes the Los Angeles-based company specializes in “master planning, new construction, modernization, and facilities assessment of K-12, community college, and higher education facilities.”

The firm — which also offers everything from architectural services to public relations — is currently working with the school district on the new elementary school campus planned for Harvest at Limoneira.

Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Rudd & Romo of Cerritos with eight offices statewide, rounded out the donations with a $5,000 Measure P campaign donation. The firm, according to its website, represents “both private and public sector clients, with emphasis in the areas of employment, labor, construction, education, real estate, general business and business litigation, corporate, taxation, bankruptcy and immigration.”

So far the campaign has spent about $3,500 on a Measure P mailing and incidental expenses leaving about $23,200 in campaign coffers.





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