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Pleasanton Unified School District’s Measure I is less than half a percent away from getting above the minimum 55% of votes needed to pass, according to Monday night’s updated election results tally.
The $395 million general obligation bond, which has trailed the threshold since Election Night, continued gains it first made in last Thursday’s update and currently stands at 54.63% Yes and 45.37% No, according to the Alameda County Registrar of Voters’ Office.
If passed, the bond would help fund the first tier phase of PUSD’s Facilities Master Plan, which was approved by the school board in June, by utilizing a tax rate of $49 per $100,000 of assessed value for Pleasanton properties to fund that first tier round of projects.
Tier 1 will prioritize funding for the gym and theater constructions at both Amador Valley and Foothill high schools as well as new classrooms at Vintage Hills Elementary. The second tier will focus on deferred maintenance, restructuring of the visual performing arts in high schools, cafeteria and air conditioning and heating equipment.
The registrar’s office will be updating its election results over the next few days, which means the measure could see the jump in votes needed to pass. Another tally update is due out Tuesday.
Measure I seeks to be the second school bond adopted by Pleasanton voters in 25 years along with the $270 million Measure I1 that passed in November 2016. PUSD did try to pass the $323 million Measure M in March 2020 but ultimately failed.
According to the county’s election data, the total tally of voter turnout countywide was 27.85%, including vote-by-mail ballots received and processed to date and votes cast in-person. It is unclear how many outstanding vote-by-mail, conditional and provisional ones ballots come from voters within PUSD’s boundaries.
Quoted from PPIE email: “Pleasanton has passed only one bond in the past 25 years and ranks last for bond funding in Alameda county – and 76th out of 80 school districts here in the Bay Area.”
Our schools desperately need funding for repairs. The gym roof at Amador is already a safety concern. I am so disappointed so many people voted No.
zz, there are reasons for the no votes if you followed the threads during the campaign. It is not because we don’t want things fixed. The bond seems like it will pass, but frankly we won’t know until the county says it has completed the counting.