Fresno Unified School District is considering putting a new bond measure for facilities on the ballot in 2024, officials said at Wednesday's board meeting. There is no information yet as to how large a bond measure would go before voters and which projects would be targeted, chief operations officer Paul...
Central Unified Trustees Decide to Take Another Shot at $120M Bond Measure
Central Unified School District trustees hope the second time will be the charm for a $120 million bond measure and voted 5-1 Tuesday night to put it on the Nov. 3 ballot. In the March primary election, Central Unified's Measure C just missed the 55% voter approval margin needed for...
Superintendent: New Boundaries, Year-Round Schools Possible if Clovis Unified Bond Measure Fails
Clovis Unified School District trustees voted Wednesday to put a $335 million bond measure on the November ballot, even as trustees and the district's superintendent acknowledged that asking for voters to approve a tax measure during a pandemic is less than ideal timing. But district officials concluded that with steadily...
Central Unified Mulls a Second Shot at Bond Measure
There will be no survey of voters this time around for Central Unified School District if trustees decide to take another shot at a bond measure. The last survey, which was taken in the summer of 2019 long before the words "COVID-19" and "pandemic" were on everybody's lips, had predicted...
Local School Bond Measure Elections Are Nail-Biters
Supporters of Clovis Unified School District's Measure A bond measure were hoping for a victory celebration Tuesday evening as they gathered at a northeast Fresno eatery to wait for election returns. But when early results that showed the $408 million bond measure that was losing by a margin of 52%...
Women in Boardroom Law: Are Fresno Companies Complying?
California's women in the boardroom law goes into effect Jan. 1. Authored by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), it mandates that the boards of publicly traded companies have women directors. Three such companies in Fresno County, all banks, qualify and have already met the first step — one woman by...
Fresno Unified Board Says No to Bond Measure Consultant
The Fresno Unified School District board on Wednesday rejected a $30,000 contract with a San Francisco consulting firm to provide public information services for the district's $325 million bond measure that's on the March 3 ballot. Listen to this article: The contract was defeated on a 2-3 vote, with new...
Should Fresno Unified Use PLAs to Build Schools?
The Fresno Unified School Board continues to grapple with whether to use project labor agreements for upcoming school construction projects such as the new southeast elementary school. Indecision about the agreements, which are supported by labor unions but opposed by general contractors and business owners, has pushed the school's opening...
Fresno Unified Wrestles With How Big to Make Bond Measure
Faced with lower community support for a bond measure that would hike property taxes, the Fresno Unified School Board appears split on whether to ask voters to greenlight a $500 million bond measure. The board is likely to vote on a bond measure resolution at the Nov. 20 meeting following...
With $700M Wish List, Fresno Unified Mulls $500M Bond Measure
Less than a month remains before the deadline to get a bond measure on the March 3 ballot, but Fresno Unified School District is still waiting for the results of a second community survey to gauge support for bond measures totaling $325 million or $500 million. Both would likely result...