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Santa Barbara County, CA June 3, 2008 Election
Measure V
Santa Barbara City College Improvement Measure
Santa Barbara Community College District
Bond measure - 55% approval required

Pass: 28397 / 70.45% Yes votes ...... 11911 / 29.55% No votes

See Also: Index of all Measures
Results as of Jun 20 1:31pm, 99.9% of Precincts Reporting (316/147)
Information shown below: Arguments | Full Text

To maintain quality, affordable, local higher education at Santa Barbara City College,
  • Improve academic facilities for students transferring to four-year colleges,
  • Improve academic facilities for nursing, health care, job training and other careers,
  • Renovate aging classrooms, upgrade/construct facilities and acquire equipment,
  • Upgrade energy efficiency/sustainability and disabled persons' access,

shall Santa Barbara Community College District issue $77,242,012 in bonds, at legal rates, qualify for State matching funds, appoint a Citizens' Oversight Committee?

   Official Information

For additional information, see the Santa Barbara City College statement on their website
Partisan Information

Yes on V website
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Arguments For Measure V Arguments Against Measure V
Santa Barbara City College(SBCC)has provided excellent, affordable, local higher education for 99 years.

Measure V will allow SBCC to make essential improvements addressing critical health, safety and access issues, and install energy efficient and water conservation systems.

  • One half of local high school graduates continue their studies at SBCC.

  • Almost 19,000 students attend classes each semester, most working toward a certificate, degree or transfer credit.

  • Annually 50,000 local residents participate in skill building, vocational and lifelong learning programs through Adult Education at over 87 facilities from Goleta to Carpinteria.

Measure V will improve SBCC by:

  • Improving and modifying existing facilities to accommodate new programs to help students prepare for jobs and/or transfer to 4-year universities.

  • Upgrading aging classrooms and labs with new technology, equipment, wiring and computers.

  • Updating classrooms and technology for nursing, radiography and other healthcare career programs.

  • Making all buildings, classrooms and community facilities accessible to people with disabilities.

  • Improving facilities for programs that help students develop essential literacy and English skills.

  • Implementing green building guidelines to create healthy work and learning environments with natural light and air flow.

  • Implementing new federal and State emergency/disaster response requirements.

Measure V protects taxpayers by requiring:
All funds be used locally to improve SBCC; no funds can
go to the State or for teacher or administrator
salaries.

Annual public audits.
Independent citizen oversight of all spending.

Measure V is a wise investment, and will qualify SBCC for over $92 million in State matching funds, making our local tax dollars go twice as far.

SBCC is a major contributor to the long-term economic health of the South Coast.

Please join us in investing in our local community college. Vote Yes on Measure V to improve Santa Barbara City College - a resource for all of us.

For more information: http://www.YesonV.net

The undersigned proponents(s) or author(s) of the primary argument in favor of Ballot Measure V2008 at the Statewide District Primary Election to be held on June 3, 2008, hereby state(s) that such argument is true and correct to the best of his/her/their knowledge and belief.

s/ Joe Armendariz, Member, Carpinteria City Council
Executive Director, Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Assn.

s/ Salud Carbajal, Chair,
Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors

s/ Harriet Miller, Former Mayor, City of Santa Barbara

s/ Eileen Bunning, President/CEO
Visiting Nurses & Hospice Care of Santa Barbara

s/ H. Edward Heron, Community Volunteer

Rebuttal to Arguments For
No rebuttal to Arguments For Measure V2008 was submitted. 		No Argument Against Measure V was submitted.

Full Text of Measure V
The Board of Trustees of the Santa Barbara Community College District, to be responsive to the needs of students and the local community, has evaluated the District's urgent and critical facility needs, including providing functional classrooms and labs to continue to offer high quality higher education courses and career programs to students, as well as campus health and safety issues, class size and offerings, energy cost reduction and information and computer technology. The scope of projects to be funded based on that evaluation are outlined in the Santa Barbara Community College District Long-Term Facilities Plan, approved by the Board on January 24, 2008, incorporated herein in its entirety. In developing the scope of projects, the faculty, staff and students, with input from the public, have prioritized the key academic transfer and career training, skills maintenance and retraining requirements of local students so that the most critical needs and the most urgent and basic service needs of the community are addressed. The Board conducted facilities evaluations and received public input and review in developing the scope of college facility projects to be funded, as listed in the Facilities Plan. This input of faculty, staff, students and community leaders concluded that if these needs are not addressed now, Santa Barbara City College would not be able to continue to provide an affordable, high quality, local source of higher education for the community. In implementing the Facilities Plan, the Board of Trustees determines that Santa Barbara City College must take every available step to:

  • Preserve access to a high-quality affordable local education and career training

programs to meet the changing needs of local residents.
  • Provide instructional facilities where recent high school graduates and adults can receive education in a broad range of subjects.

  • Provide critically important re-training to persons who want to expand their job skills as well as prepare students to transfer to four-year colleges and universities.

  • Upgrade its infrastructure to generate long-term water and energy conservation and cost savings.

  • Apply aggressively for State matching funds of approximately $92 million to pay for the majority of needed campus improvements.

The Facilities Plan is on file and available for review at the District President's Office and includes the type of projects listed below.

SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE PROJECTS

  • Repair, Upgrade, and/or Replace Obsolete Classrooms, Science and Computer Labs, Instructional Facilities, Sites and Utilities for Safety and Energy Efficiency and Sustainability:

Repair, upgrade and/or replace deteriorating plumbing, electrical systems, wiring, unsanitary and run down bathrooms, leaky roofs, windows, inadequate doors, heating, ventilation and cooling systems, fix rusty structures and eliminate power outages, upgrade security systems, science laboratories and other instructional facilities; wire for computers and upgrade classroom technology; increase safety, increase energy efficiency, reduce fire hazards, reduce operating costs so more classes and job training can be offered, improve academic instruction; meet legal requirements for disabled access, remove hazardous asbestos, apply green building guidelines to improve energy efficiency and promote a sustainable healthy learning environment.

  • Upgrade, Convert, Build and/or Expand Classroom Buildings and Facilities to Maintain Affordable, Local Higher Education:

Modernize and expand classrooms for academic classes and career training, including nursing, nursing aides, emergency medical technicians, radiologists, and other health career programs, emergency service workers, English, literacy skills, math, reading, physical sciences, laboratories, technology and information management and districtwide technology support, administrative facilities, academic and career counseling, college transfer, job training/placement, career skills center for adult education students, a high tech center, including technology-based instruction for computer science, media arts, math, automotive technology, culinary, business and engineering science, visual and performing arts classrooms and labs, lecture/meeting/faculty/seminar rooms, physical and workforce education facilities, expand computer access.

  • Technology Upgrades/Computer Centers:

Expand technology and computer capacity with high-speed Internet access and computer technology, create "smart classrooms" to improve teaching and learning; upgrade software, computer and technology infrastructure and campus-wide technology; provide software training; replace outdated equipment.

  • Improve Campus Safety:

Remove all harmful asbestos, lead and other hazardous materials; upgrade or add fire alarms, sprinklers, smoke detectors, intercoms and fire doors; install security systems, exterior lighting, emergency lighting, door locks and fences, improve pedestrian safety, remove uneven sidewalks and walkways, remove barriers to access, as necessary.

  • Repair, Replace and Upgrade Aging Electrical and Mechanical Systems to Reduce Energy Consumption and Utility Bills.

Listed building, repair and rehabilitation projects and upgrades will be completed as needed. Each project is assumed to include its share of furniture, equipment, architectural, engineering, and similar planning costs, construction program management, and a customary contingency for unforeseen design and construction costs. In addition to the listed repair and construction projects MEASURE V stated above, the Projects also include the payment of the costs of preparation of all facility planning, facility assessment reviews, environmental studies and construction documentation, and temporary housing of dislocated District activities caused by bond projects. The allocation of bond proceeds may be affected by the District's receipt of State matching funds and the final costs of each project. In the absence of State matching funds, which the District will aggressively pursue to reduce the District's share of the costs of the projects, the District may not be able to complete some of the projects listed above. Certain projects may be undertaken as joint use projects in cooperation with other local public agencies. The budget for each project is an estimate and may be affected by factors beyond the District's control. The final cost of each project will be determined as plans are finalized, construction bids are awarded and projects are completed. Based on the final costs of each project or the pace of student enrollment, certain of the projects described above may be delayed or may not be completed. Necessary site preparation/restoration may occur in connection with new construction, renovation or remodeling, or installation or removal of relocatable classrooms, including ingress and egress, removing, replacing, or installing irrigation, utility lines, trees and landscaping, redirecting fire access, and acquiring any necessary easements, licenses, or rights of way to the property. Bond proceeds shall only be expended for the specific purposes identified herein. The District shall create an account into which proceeds of the bonds shall be deposited and comply with the reporting requirements of Government Code § 53410.

FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY. IN ACCORDANCE WITH EDUCATION CODE SECTION 15272, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES WILL APPOINT A CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AND CONDUCT ANNUAL INDEPENDENT AUDITS TO ASSURE THAT FUNDS ARE SPENT ONLY ON DISTRICT PROJECTS AND FOR NO OTHER PURPOSE. THE EXPENDITURE OF BOND MONEY ON THESE PROJECTS IS SUBJECT TO STRINGENT FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY REQUIREMENTS. BY LAW, PERFORMANCE AND FINANCIAL AUDITS WILL BE PERFORMED ANNUALLY, AND ALL BOND EXPENDITURES WILL BE MONITORED BY AN INDEPENDENT CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE TO ENSURE THAT FUNDS ARE SPENT AS PROMISED AND SPECIFIED. THE CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MUST INCLUDE, AMONG OTHERS, REPRESENTATION OF A BONA FIDE TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION, A BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND A SENIOR CITIZENS ORGANIZATION. NO DISTRICT EMPLOYEES OR VENDORS ARE ALLOWED TO SERVE ON THE CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.

NO ADMINISTRATOR SALARIES. PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE BONDS AUTHORIZED BY THIS PROPOSITION SHALL BE USED ONLY FOR THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION, REHABILITATION, OR REPLACEMENT OF COLLEGE FACILITIES, INCLUDING THE FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF COLLEGE FACILITIES, AND NOT FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE, INCLUDING TEACHER AND COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR SALARIES AND OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES.

"Approval of Measure V2008 does not guarantee that the proposed project or projects in the Santa Barbara Community College District that are the subject of bonds under Measure V2008 will be funded beyond the local revenues generated by Measure V2008. The school District's proposal for the project or projects may assume the receipt of matching state funds, which could be subject to appropriation by the Legislature or approval of a statewide bond measure."

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