The Contra Costa County Elections Division updated its vote count on Friday and Measure D's chances of passage has strengthened.
Measure D now has 55.62 percent of the "yes" votes compared to 44.39 percent of the "no" votes. The measure needs 55 percent of the "yes" votes to win.
The new counts adds 3,384 votes to the results posted on election night. The current tally is 29,602 "yes" votes to 22,410 "no" votes.
The original count had Measure D holding on to an even slimmer lead, with 55.19 percent of the votes in favor.
The $260 million bond is to pay for campus upgrades and improve technology in classrooms. In addition, the measure would address overcrowding issues at campuses in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District.
Among the Measure D projects include:
- Technology infrastructure improvements for 21st-century learning.
- Additional classrooms/facilities to prevent overcrowding and better ensure that students can attend neighborhood schools.
- Modernization of classrooms, science labs, facilities and sites to support instruction.
- Energy efficiency and cost-saving improvements.
- Fire, security and earthquake safety improvements.
- Projects to keep schools/facilities/sites safe, clean and well-maintained.
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By the way Heide and all the others that voted YES on "D", follow the MONEY an you just may be surprised where it ends up. Oh, and another little info that may surprise you... If you want to stop "OVERCROWDING"...Tell your civic leaders to STOP developing open space. If you haven't noticed, more development + more homes = more children. Hows that for an interesting fact. Well, I for one hope measure D goes where the Devil lives. Thank You Danville Patch for allowing me to express my personal opinion.
Can't keep on paying forever into schools. Need to fix the school situation. Have the home builders fund building out the schools not the taxpayers. What about middle and High school overcrowding coming? Are you'll going to covert some other schools for that in the future?
Remember something Patty... "If you keep feeding the Starving Beast, it will continue feeding off of you" Why do I believe you and others would blindly support a tax on your hard earned money. Simple...because the Starving Beast eats appeals to sensitive emotion...Children, Children Children...anything for the Children...If the children benefited, I would also vote yes...but that is not the fact. If you think differently about the flow of money...ask the school board or the person in charge of the purse strings to report to the tax-payers just where and when this money is spent. I noticed you did not comment about the overcrowding issue. I am assuming you are in favor of build. build and build some more. No Patty...I'm sorry...you live in Fantasy-Land. But thank you for responding...That's what a Democracy is all about. Leonard
It will never stop. There will never be enough.
You speak about a new bond measure in three years. I doubt it but there may be a new parcel tax in a few years. Parcel taxes pay for operations and additional classes. Residents of Acalanes district in LaMOrinda pay over $400 in parcel taxes for their schools. Parcel taxes are paid on a per parcel basis not on a portion of the property value. Very different.
The budget for SRVUSD is a public document available for anyone to look at, which I have, so I am informed of where and when the money is spent.
As for the measure this is the first one that I am aware of since the last one passed in 1998 and many of the schools were looking pretty dismal then. Leonard, which schools do you think need the most funding in SRVUSD?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/13/us-bernardino-bankrupt-idUSBRE8AC0HP20121113 Little by little, over many years, the salaries and retirement benefits of San Bernardino's city workers — and especially its police and firemen — grew richer and richer, even as the city lost its major employers and gradually got poorer and poorer. Unions poured money into city council elections, and the city council poured money into union pay and pensions. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers), which manages pension plans for San Bernardino and many other cities, encouraged ever-sweeter benefits. Investment bankers sold clever bond deals to pay for them.
Two-thirds of millionaires left Britain to avoid 50p tax rate Almost two-thirds of the country’s million-pound earners disappeared from Britain after the introduction of the 50p top rate of tax, figures have disclosed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9707029/Two-thirds-of-millionaires-left-Britain-to-avoid-50p-tax-rate.html
Washington, D.C., had the worst high school graduation rate in the country in 2011, according to state-by-state statistics released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education. Only 59 percent of high school students who started as freshmen in the 2006-2007 school year graduated four years later from District of Columbia schools, according to the data, which details state four-year high school graduation rates in the 2010-11 school year. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/dc-takes-top-honors-worst-graduation-rate-us