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Facts about Measure C Walnut Creek
School District
Measure C will generate $20 million in local funds to fully complete
all planned repair and renovation projects to support the 3,330 students
attending the six schools in the Walnut Creek School District
Buena Vista, Indian Valley, Murwood, Parkmead, and Walnut Heights
Elementary Schools and Walnut Creek Intermediate School.
Measure C funds will: |
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BUILD
a new library at the middle school. |
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IMPROVE
school safety and security systems. |
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RENOVATE
and EXPAND fields used both by students and a range of community
groups. |
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UPGRADE
technology at each school in the district. |
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Measure C will allow the Walnut Creek School District to build
a new library and new physical education facilities at Walnut Creek
Intermediate School. The existing library and P.E. facilities
are inadequate for a school with 1,200 students.
Passage of Measure C will give the school district the funds to
improve the safety and security systems at each of our schools.
School alarm systems need to be improved to include up-to-date electronic
security features. In addition, the district will use the funds to
upgrade fire alarm systems and improve critical fire-access roads
near the schools.
After nearly 50 years of daily use, the fields at all six school
sites are in need of repair. In addition to ongoing school use,
the fields at each school are used extensively by the community for
baseball, soccer, and other activities. Measure C funds will be used
to renovate the fields at each school and to expand the field space
at Indian Valley and Walnut Heights schools.
Measure C funds will be used to improve and upgrade the technology
infrastructure that links the classrooms and computers in the district.
To support learning and to improve communications among the schools,
the district needs to update its technology infrastructure. These
improvements will include the addition of fiber optic lines.
In Addition
Passage of Measure C will NOT raise existing tax rates. Measure
C will allow the Walnut Creek School District to extend the authorization
for the general obligation bond approved by the voters in 1995. The
extended authorization will allow the school district to raise much
needed funds without increasing the current tax rates of local taxpayers.
The funds generated from Measure C will not fund school administrator
or teacher salaries. All of the money generated from the extension
of the existing school bond will pay for the approved list
of school construction projects identified by the Walnut Creek
School District. An Independent Citizens Oversight Committee will
monitor all bond expenditures.
State lottery monies cannot be used to fund these projects.
State law expressly prohibits schools from using lottery funds for
school construction projects (CA Government Code Section 8880.5).
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