49,115 / 67.2% Yes votes ...... 23,926 / 32.8% No votes

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No funds derived from bond sales could be used for general school operating expenses, including administrator and teacher salaries, or for any purpose or project other than those expressly stated in the measure.

To assure that funds are spent only on school and classroom improvements and for no other purposes, thismeasure would require the District to: 1) deposit all bond sale funds into a specially created building fund account; 2) prepare an annual report on the amount of funds collected and expended and the status of any project required or authorized to be funded; 3) appoint a citizen's oversight committee; and 4) conduct annual independent performance and financial audits. The authority, responsibilities and membership composition of the citizen's oversight committee would be as prescribed by applicable state law.

The actual dates of sale and the amount of bonds sold would be governed by the District. The number of years that the whole or any part of such school district bonds are to run could not exceed the statutory maximum, calculated from the date of the bonds or any series thereof. lf Measure I is approved, the tax rate necessary for payment of principal and interest on any bonds sold will be largely dictated by the timing of the bond sales, the amount sold at a given sale, market interest rates at the time of each sale (although in no event greater than the maximum bond net interest rate allowed by law), as well as actual assessed valuation of taxable property in the District over the term of repayment.

Approval of Measure I does not guarantee that the identified projects will be funded beyond local revenues generated by the bond sales or that such local revenues will be sufficient to complete all of the proposed projects.

Passage of Measure I requires approval by fifty-five percent of the voters voting thereon.

The Sacramento Bee

Bond measure gets candidate support

Friday, October 18, 2002

But as things get better and Sacramento continues to grow, more families than ever are enrolling their children in our public schools. Today, overcrowding is one of our biggest challenges. Measure I meets that challenge.

We will build new elementary schools, a new middle school, and five small high schools -- allowing parents to choose a neighborhood school. This new construction, along with completion of our modernization and repair programs, will allow Sacramento City Schools to stay on the road to excellence.

Measure I will nearly complete the rebuilding of our community's largest and most important public infrastructure -- our schools.

More classrooms mean fewer students in each one. And that allows teachers to give more individual attention to every child. Modernization means bringing every school up to state-of-the-art technology and safety standards. And Measure I's accountability requirements mean that money will be spent exactly as it's supposed to be. Please join us inmoving Sacramento's City Schools forward. The future awaits us all.

/s Robert T. Matsui, Congressman

/s Jay Schenirer, Chairman, Sacramentans for Better Schools

/s Gloria Hernandez, Executive Director, Area Congregations Together (ACT)

/s Kevin Johnson, Founder, St. Hope Academy

/s Dave Leader, President, Sacramento Council of PTAs

This bond (paid by you in your taxes) will cost the average property owner an estimated $3,941. You can double that number if you count the Bond the voters just approved in 1999.

This Bond will cost each person approximately $1,279. If you rent, this cost will be factored into future rent increases. Again, you can double that number if you count the 1999 Bond.

In the 1999 Bond measure the voters required a Bond Oversight Committee. The Committee has onlymet 8 times in 3 years. SCUSD required the meetings to be no more than 2 hours long. That is 16 hours of oversight in 3 years. The committee has not met with a quorum in over a year, and it has filed only one required annual report in the 3 years.

The Bond Oversight Committee's November, 2001 minutes state: "the Committee wouldn't encourage another bond issuance because the District is not ready." The District chose to ignore annual State "Conflict of Interest" statements for the Bond Oversight Committee. All committee member conflicts (i.e. financial interest in matters before the Committee, contractor relationships, SCUSD employee relationships, etc) have been kept secret.

The 1999 Bond measure also required an annual audit. No audits of how the Bond moneys have been spent have been done in three years. What are they hiding? SCUSD trustees commitment to independent oversight doesn't exist. SCUSD commitment to annual audits doesn't exist. SCUSD commitment to financial disclosures doesn't exist. SCUSD commitment to top quality work at reasonable prices doesn't exist.

Our money is wasted. Teachers and Students have been cheated.

Their own oversight committee says they are not ready.We agree. Please Vote No on Measure "I".

/s Mark Whisler, President, Sacramento City Taxpayers' Rights League

/s DennisNeufeld, Secretary-Treasurer, Sacramento City Taxpayers' Rights League

/s Robert Winger, Property Manager - RealtorŪ, Whisler Land Company

/s Albert Weaver, Colonial Heights Neighborhood Activist