Los Gatos residents’ support for the $163 million “Measure CC” bond to upgrade classrooms and other facilities at Los Gatos Union School District—which needed 55% to pass—was confirmed at 65.76% of the vote by Friday.
There were 8,028 votes cast from the Yes side, compared to 34.24% against (4,180 votes), in unofficial results from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters (with a vote centers marked “completely reported”).
According to the Yes of CC camp, while the Los Gatos Union School District “provides our children with one of the best educations in the State,” too many structures are more than half-a-century old.
“Measure CC will provide locally controlled funding for elementary and middle school classrooms that support programs like STEAM, literacy, music, and the performing arts — all of which will help us maintain the high-achieving, well-rounded education our students need,” the safeandstronglgschools.com website argued.
The bond measure was supported by former County supervisor Mike Wasserman, Councilmember Rob Rennie, Loma Prieta Joint Union School District Trustee Denise Ramon Herrera and R.J. Fisher Middle School special education teacher Tina Nguyen-Lee, among others.
It’s designed to levy $30 per $100,000 of assessed value (averaging $11.5 million a year), with audits and oversight built in, and no money going to pay administrators. All funds would stay within the local district.
Meanwhile, by Friday, support for Lakeside Joint School District’s “Measure HH” parcel tax renewal inched up from 63.29% to 64.59% of the vote (166 votes), compared with 35.41% of the vote (91 votes) in Santa Clara County (with all precincts deemed “completely reported”). However, in Santa Cruz County, support dipped from 74.16% of the vote to 73.99% (219 votes), compared to 26.01% (77) who rejected it. So, 385 people voted for, while 168 opposed it out of a total of 566 votes cast—meaning 68.02% of voters supported it.
So, as the school week came to an end, it looked as though the District had just eked out the 2/3rds minimum needed to maintain education services.
In the District 16 Congressional race, Evan Low conceded to Sam Liccardo. Liccardo got 58.62% of the vote in Santa Clara County (102,813 votes), while Low was at 41.38% (72,567 votes); Liccardo was at 63.14% of the vote (25,289 votes) ahead of Low’s 36.86% vote share (14,762 votes) in San Mateo County.
