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 66.19% of the vote on Tuesday.
There were 10,033 votes cast from the Yes side, compared to 33.81% against (5,125 votes), in unofficial results from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters (of 15,158 votes cast).
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 will 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 are to stay within the local district.
Meanwhile, as of Tuesday night, support for Lakeside Joint School District’s “Measure HH” parcel tax renewal continued to inched up—from 63.29%, to 64.59%, and now 67.45%) of the vote (230 votes), compared with 32.55% of the vote (111 votes) against in Santa Clara County. However, in Santa Cruz County, support continued to dip (from 74.16% of the vote, to 73.99%, and now 73.92%—309 votes), compared to 26.08% (109) who rejected it. So, 539 people voted for, while 220 opposed it out of a total of 780 votes cast—meaning 69.1% 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. As of Tuesday, Liccardo had achieved 57.46% of the vote in Santa Clara County (134,012 votes), while Low was at 42.54% (of 233,219 votes); Liccardo was at 62.62% of the vote (31,305 votes) ahead of Low’s 37.38% vote share (18,687 votes) in San Mateo County.
