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Colton Joint Unified staff recommend 47 Measure BB projects; board gives direction to pursue first bond series
Summary
Staff told the board it can pursue an initial Measure BB bond series of up to $150 million and presented a prioritized list of 47 campus projects (school-site budgets total quoted as $103,890,000); trustees gave consensus direction to advance the list, begin design work and proceed with bond sale planning.
The Colton Joint Unified School District board on July 17 heard a detailed Measure BB update from district staff and outside consultants asking for direction to proceed with an initial bond sale and a prioritized project list. Financial adviser Mike Williams told the board the district could issue as much as $150,000,000 in a first series under current debt-service assumptions, subject to certification requirements and a three-to-five year spend-down standard.
Staff framed the prioritization around a weighted, 10-category scoring matrix used to evaluate 247 candidate projects and produce a recommended set of 47 projects. Facility director Owen Chang and consultant Randy Duncan walked trustees through the scoring categories — safety and security, stakeholder engagement, parity and equity, state match eligibility, capacity and age of facilities, among others — and highlighted projects recommended for the…
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