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Sunnyside Unified board calls special election for $120 million bond
Summary
The Sunnyside Unified School District Governing Board voted to order a special election in November asking voters to approve a $120 million bond to fund building repairs, modernization and a proposed new Sunnyside High School project.
The Sunnyside Unified School District Governing Board on a roll-call vote approved a resolution calling a special bond election asking voters to authorize $120,000,000 in bonds to address facility repairs, modernization and new construction needs.
Carla Walters, district staff, told the board that “School districts are statutorily required to ask voters for permission to sell bonds to investors in order to raise capital dollars” and outlined the district's capital-needs assessment. Walters said the assessment identified roughly $81,000,000 in critical repairs and another $47,000,000 for new construction related to Sunnyside High School, for an overall estimated need of about $128,000,000.
The resolution requests $120 million, which Walters said would translate to an average secondary-tax increase of about $0.93 — roughly $93 annually (about $7.75 monthly) per $100,000 of assessed value.…
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