Pomona school board appoints Measure PS oversight panel

POMONA - Members of the Pomona Unified school board selected seven community members this week to serve on the Measure PS Citizens' Oversight Committee.

A committee of the board, which consisted of President Andrew Wong and board member John Avila, presented the list of nominees after going through 17 applications.

Recommended and approved to serve on the panel: John Murray, who takes the slot of a parent or guardian of a district student; Roberta Perlman-Hensen, representing a taxpayers' organization; Jim Popovich, representing a senior citizens' organization; Deborah O'Connor, a business community representative active in the district; Philip Garcia, sitting as the parent or guardian of a district student who is active in a parent-teacher organization; and the Rev. Michael Fronk and Roger Pearce were selected as at-large members.

The panel will review and report on the proper use of bond funds for school modernization, and will also inform the public about whether the district is complying with state requirements in use of the funds, a staff report said.