Pomona Unified to make decision on parcel tax ballot measure
Author: Monica Rodriguez, Staff Writer
the main item on the agenda of Thursday's meeting of the Pomona
Unified School District Board of Education.
The board will meet in open session at 7:30 p.m. in the board room of
the district's headquarters, 800 S. Garey Ave.
Board members will hold a public hearing before voting on the matter.
School district administrators are proposing asking district voters
for a parcel tax that would generate about $4 million annually for
four years.
The money raised through the tax would be used to pay for academic
programs, counseling, library and health services as well as
athletics and visual and performing arts programs and the teachers
who offer them.
To pass, the measure would have to receive a two-thirds majority.
The measure would contain provisions for an oversight committee.
Members of Associated Pomona Teachers have proposed adding wording to
that language that would appear on the ballot stating money raised
through the tax will not go to paying administrators or consultants.
It approved, property owners would pay $98 per parcel annually for
four years.
Multi-family residential properties with two to four units would pay
$196 a year, according to district information.
Multi-family residential properties with five or more units would pay
$490 a year.
A parcel tax is levied on any property in the district assessed by
the Los Angeles County tax collector.
School board members were expected to make a decision on the matter
at their July 15 meeting, but the matter was pulled off that agenda
when a district lawyer determined the public hearing connected to the
proposal was not properly noticed.
for a parcel tax that would generate about $4 million annually for
four years.
The money raised through the tax would be used to pay for academic
programs, counseling, library and health services as well as
athletics and visual and performing arts programs and the teachers
who offer them.
To pass, the measure would have to receive a two-thirds majority.
The measure would contain provisions for an oversight committee.
Members of Associated Pomona Teachers have proposed adding wording to
that language that would appear on the ballot stating money raised
through the tax will not go to paying administrators or consultants.
It approved, property owners would pay $98 per parcel annually for
four years.
Multi-family residential properties with two to four units would pay
$196 a year, according to district information.
Multi-family residential properties with five or more units would pay
$490 a year.
A parcel tax is levied on any property in the district assessed by
the Los Angeles County tax collector.
School board members were expected to make a decision on the matter
at their July 15 meeting, but the matter was pulled off that agenda
when a district lawyer determined the public hearing connected to the
proposal was not properly noticed.
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