Update: The next board meeting is May 14 -not May 24. It has been corrected here. Thank you Nico for pointing out the error.
Fullerton Joint Union High School Board
For more information: (714) 870-2800 or http://www.fjuhsd.org
School Bond Study Session
FJUHSD held a study session addressing the feasibility of another school bond on April 9 before their regular school board meeting. The new digital Facilities Master Plan is finished and Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, Ruben Hernandez will show the community how to access the multilayered plan at the May 14 board meeting.
The digital master plan currently calculates construction costs of 1.3 billion dollars to accomplish all project upgrades in the existing plan and 515 million dollars in immediate construction costs.
Based on parent, staff, and administration surveys, most high schools request new locker rooms, fencing, and additional artificial tracks and fields. La Vista /La Sierra High School requested a new multipurpose/library technical space. The school did not receive any $175 million 2014 Bond I money since the campus was built with the prior 2002 high school bond that will be paid off in 2029. Bond I will be paid off in 2043.
True North Consultant Tim McLarney indicated from his interview survey of 695 community members that a new facilities bond is feasible in the voting community at $30, $24, or $19 per $100,000 of assessed property value (property assessment is found using yearly tax bills, not market values). When FJUHSD Board President Dr. Chester Jeng asked Mr. McLarney about the probable success of a bond if both Fullerton elementary and high school districts propose a facilities bond in November, Mr. McLarney said he did not ask interviewees about a double bond. Still, if the message is right, he thought communities would approve both bonds for elementary and high school.
No action was taken. The board approved the new Master Facilities Plan during the meeting and will decide whether to submit another school facilities bond by the end of June.
The next board meeting is May 14
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La Vista La Sierra was built using COPs issued in 2007 which were issued by the Fullerton Joint Union High School District Education Foundation.
The next board meeting is May 14th 2024 (not May 24th)
Nico is right – the next FJUHSD BOARD MEETING IS MAY 14.
Thank you. It has been corrected.
Wow – that May 14th correction should be made if accurate. La Vista/ La Sierra deserve library-tech room and I would vote for that but I object to any more fake grass fields at schools or anywhere else due to harm to kids playing on such fields, heat island effects, and plastic pollution. Plus the enormous costs. Really not voting for this if that’s in it. Priorities need rethinking.
Is the billion $$$ range normal for school districts? Also, RE “The digital master plan currently calculates construction costs of 1.3 billion dollars to accomplish all project upgrades in the existing plan and 515 million dollars in immediate construction costs.” What’s the difference between accomplishing all project upgrades and immediate construction costs? Is the total cost, then, $1.8 billion?