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Consultant survey shows initial voter support for possible Combs Unified bond; safety and HVAC top priorities
Summary
High Ground Public Affairs presented a 300-sample telephone survey showing pretest support for a potential bond at about 58% and a post-education support level of about 62%; safety, HVAC and CTE upgrades scored highest among tested projects.
The J O Combs Unified School District governing board heard results of a community bond survey conducted by High Ground Public Affairs that found initial viability for a proposed facilities bond and identified safety, heating/air conditioning and career-technical upgrades as the highest-priority items among likely voters.
Paul Bence, senior vice president of research and strategy for High Ground, told the board the survey was a live-operator telephone poll of 300 likely voters conducted Feb. 25–27 and balanced by age, party and precinct. In the firm's ballot-language pretest the measure drew about 58% "yes" to 30% "no." After reading project information and reasons to support the bond, the post-test rose to roughly 62% yes and 27% no.
Why this matters: the survey gives district leaders an early read on whether to place a bond question before voters and which project descriptions will resonate most during public…
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