El Rancho school board puts bond measure on Nov. 2 ballot

By WAVE STAFF

Story Created: Aug 26, 2010 at 10:33 AM PST

Story Updated: Aug 26, 2010 at 10:33 AM PST

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PICO RIVERA — The El Rancho school board has voted to place a $52 million bond measure on the Nov. 2 ballot to fund additional campus modernization projects.

The board voted 4-0 Aug. 8 to put the measure on the ballot. Board member Vince Chavez was absent.

The measure actually will extend for another 12 years the bond measure approved by voters in 2003. That bond provided $49.5 million to modernize campuses in the district. Two years remain on that bond issue.

Under that bond, property owners pay $58 for every $100,000 of assessed valuation on their property.

“The key is that there would be no increase in taxes,” Superintendent Myrna Rivera Cote told the Whittier Daily News.

The measure requires approval by at least 55 percent of district voters.

Among the improvements the district hopes to make with the bond money are:

• Replacing the cafeteria at El Rancho High School to accommodate joint school and community use.

• Upgrading science labs.

• Modernizing classrooms.

• Replacing playfields with turf systems that reduce water usage.

• Providing security cameras, school lighting, fencing, gates and walkways.

• Funding deferred-maintenance projects.

• And addressing unforeseen conditions revealed by modernization or construction, such as plumbing, gas line breaks, dry rot or structural issues.

Cote said a phone survey showed that about 75 percent of voters contacted would support the bond extension. The 2003 bond measure was approved by nearly 70 percent of the voters.

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