Pass: 59,287 / 60.61% Yes votes ...... 38,529 / 39.39% No votes

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Impartial Analysis from Raymond G. Fortner, Jr. County Counsel

Approval of Measure SA would authorize the William S. Hart Union High School District (“District”) to issue general obligation bonds, in an amount not to exceed $300,000,000.

Funds received from the sale of the bonds shall be used for the specific purposes set forth in this Measure including, repairing, replacing, and upgrading outdated classrooms, science/computer labs, instruction technology, wiring, plumbing, heating, ventilation; improving fire/seismic systems; and adding a new high school, facilities, and classrooms. No funds may be used for teacher and administrator salaries or any other school operating expenses.

Independent performance and financial audits will be performed annually to ensure that the funds received from the sale of the bonds are expended as specified in the Measure. All bond expenditures will be monitored by an independent Citizen’s Oversight Committee to ensure that the funds are spent as specified.

The bonds proposed to be issued and sold shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding twelve percent (12%) per annum. The bonds would only be issued if the tax rate levied does not exceed $30 per year per $100,000 of taxable property within the District. The bonds would be issued for a term not to exceed twenty-five (25) years in the case of bonds issued under the authority of the Education Code, and forty (40) years in the case of bonds issued under the authority of the Government Code. By issuing the bonds the District may be eligible to receive matching state funds.

This Measure requires a fifty-five percent (55%) vote for passage.

William S. Hart Union High School District

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