To: Board of Supervisors
From: Clerk/Recorder
Agenda Section: Consent
SUBJECT:
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Resolution No. 19-20-014 Requesting Consolidation of Eureka City Schools District Bond Election with the March 3, 2020, Presidential Primary Election
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
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That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Direct the Registrar of Voters to conduct, and give notice of, a general obligation bond election for the Eureka City Schools District;
2. Consolidate this election with the Presidential Primary Election to be held on March 3, 2020;
3. Direct Eureka City Schools District to reimburse the County of Humboldt for costs incurred pursuant to Resolution No. 19-20-014; and
4. Request the Clerk of the Board forward the signed Board Order and one copy of Eureka City Schools District Resolution No. 19-20-014 to the Humboldt County Office of Elections.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
General Fund (1100)
DISCUSSION:
On December 2, 2019 the Eureka City Schools District passed Resolution No.19-20-014 which orders a general obligation bond election to authorize the issuance of school bonds in the amount of $18,000,000 subject to the approval of 55 percent of the votes cast by the qualified electorate. Further, Resolution No. 19-20-014 requests that the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors consolidate the election with the Presidential Primary Election to be held on March 3, 2020, directs county election officials to conduct the necessary election, and states that the Eureka City Schools District agrees to reimburse the county for all costs associated with the bond election.
The question to be submitted to the voters shall read:
"EUREKA CITY SCHOOLS HIGH SCHOOL EMERGENCY REPAIR/STUDENT SAFETY MEASURE. To repair unsafe school buildings, storm drains, fields and facilities; improve campus, student and teacher safety/disabled accessibility; acquire, construct, repair sites, equipment/high school/continuing education facilities; qualify for emergency State matchin...
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