Rumors are Santa Monica College will probably float another facility construction bond on the November 2008, ballot. I’ve been told boilerplate is now being drafted by SMC’s Marketing Manager Don Girard for Board of Trustees review, possibly next month, so the total dollar amount is not finalized. SMC’s press relations manager, Bruce Smith, denies any knowledge of it.
Costs of the bond, if placed on the ballot and approved by voters, will be born by all property owners and renters in the Santa Monica/Malibu Community College District. The college’s most recent bond proposal, the $135-million Measure S was barely approved in the November 2004 election. Measure U, a $160 million bond proposal, was approved by voters in March 2002. College bonds have raised nearly $300-million for campus capital improvements in the last six years.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 5, 2008. Read the original PDF.