Resolution 13686 and Staff ReportCITY OF ALAMEDA
Memorandum
TO: Honorable Mayor and
Councilmembers
FROM: James M. Flint
City Manager
Date: February 10, 2004
SUBJECT: Adoption of Resolution Declaring Support for Alameda Unified School
District Measure C - School Repair Measure
BACKGROUND
This item is brought to you at the request of Mayor Johnson and Councilmember Matarrese.
Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) Board of Education has placed Measure C on the
March 2, 2004 ballot. Measure C will enable AUSD to issue $63 million in school facilities
bonds to renovate aging neighborhood schools; improve student safety conditions; relieve
classroom overcrowding; construct, equip and upgrade classrooms, facilities and school sites;
and qualify for over $17 million in State matching funds.
DISCUSSION
Measure C has been placed on the March 2, 2004 ballot to provide local funding to AUSD
without increasing existing tax rates. Measure C will replace a 1989 school facilities bond and
takes effect in 2014. Proceeds from the school facilities bonds will be used only for the purposes
of repair and renovation of existing school facilities, construction of a new K -8 school and
district -wide projects.
In addition, Measure C establishes a Superintendent's Oversight and Advisory Committee to
advise the Superintendent and the Board of Education about the proper expenditure of the
proceeds of Alameda School Repair measure. No proceeds shall go to the State, and all funds
shall remain in Alameda to benefit neighborhood schools.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no financial impact to the City's General Fund.
"Dedicated to Excellence, Committed to Service"
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The Honorable Mayor February 10, 2004
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RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the Council, by motion, adopt a resolution declaring support for Measure
C, the Alameda Unified School District School Repair Measure.
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Respectfully submitted,
Suz. - Ota
Interim Assistant City Manager
"Dedicated to Excellence, Committed to Service"
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CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 13 6 8 6
DECLARING SUPPORT FOR MEASURE C -
ALAMEDA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOND MEASURE
FOR ALAMEDA SCHOOL REPAIR (MARCH 2, 2004)
WHEREAS, children need the support of schools and educational programs in
order to thrive; and
WHEREAS, the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) educates and serves
10,546 students from grades K -12; and
WHEREAS, Measure C has been placed on the March 2, 2004 ballot by the
AUSD Board of Education to provide local funding for Repair and Renovation of
Existing Alameda School Facilities, Construction of a New K -8 School and District -wide
Projects; and
wWHEREAS, the Alameda School Repair Measure will renovate aging
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neighborhood schools, improve student safety conditions, relieve classroom
0 overcrowding, construct, equip and upgrade classrooms, facilities and sites, and qualify
for over $17 million in State matching funds; and
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WHEREAS, the Measure establishes a Superintendent's Oversight and Advisory
Committee to advise the Superintendent and the Board of Education about the proper
expenditure of the proceeds of the Alameda School Repair Measure; and
WHEREAS, the approval of Measure C will enable the Alameda Unified School
District to issue $63 million of school facilities bonds without increasing existing tax
rates and with all funds remaining in Alameda to benefit neighborhood schools.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Alameda, in keeping with the principle of improving the quality of life for children and
youth in Alameda, does hereby endorse Measure C, the Alameda Unified School District
— Alameda School Repair Measure.
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EXHIBIT A
Alameda School Repair Measure. "To renovate aging neighborhood schools, improve
student safety conditions, relieve classroom overcrowding, construct, equip, upgrade classrooms,
facilities and sites, and qualify for over $17 million in State matching funds, shall the Alameda City
Unified School District issue $63 million of bonds at legal rates, with annual audits and citizen
oversight, with no proceeds going to the State and all funds remaining in Alameda to benefit
neighborhood schools without increasing existing tax rates ?"
Bonds - Yes Bonds — No
From:
"Exhibit A" — (Text of School Bond Ballot Measure, March 2, 2004 Election"
Approved by the Alameda Board of Education November 25, 2004
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting assembled on the 17th
day of February, 2004, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Gilmore, , Matarrese, and
Mayor Johnson - 4.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: Councilmember Kerr - 1.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this
18th day of February, 2004.
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Lara Weisiger, City Cl r
City of Alameda