Valley voters decide on millions in local school bonds

Local schoolhouse districts are outlining however they program to walk millions of dollars from recently approved enslaved measures.

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Central Valley voters decided connected millions of dollars successful schoolhouse bonds Tuesday, greenlighting galore of them based connected archetypal results.

Measure H successful Fresno is poised to pass. It allows the Fresno Unified School District to instrumentality retired a $500 cardinal enslaved for facilities and infrastructure.

Interim Superintendent Misty Her tells Action News Measure H volition assistance dozens of schools.

"I would accidental 90 percent of the wealth is going to spell towards fixing unsatisfactory facilities," Her said.

Her says Measure H is the archetypal clip Fresno Unified has created a precedence database for a bond, telling voters wherever their dollars would spell and when.

"It's going to spell toward our astir unsatisfactory schools first, past our mediocre schools, past our schools that are rated fair, and truthful on," she said.

However, voters look to reason Measure Q, the State Center Community College District's petition for astir $700 million, which was the biggest section schoolhouse enslaved connected the November ballot.

Trustee Danielle Parra is hopeful it volition walk arsenic much votes travel in. She says the wealth is needed to grow workforce improvement programs.

"I deliberation that we request to support the aboriginal of the Central Valley successful mind," Parra said.

"This is going straight to facilities and pupil success. We request to support that successful mind. It's for our aboriginal economy, our aboriginal workforce."

In Clovis, concerns implicit taxes could descend Measure A.

Clovis Unified asked for $400 cardinal to decorativeness Clovis South High School and upgrade facilities.

It is simply a territory wherever schools are usually top-of-mind for residents, but voters look split.

In a statement, Superintendent Corrine Folmer said, successful part:

"We are resilient, and if Measure A does not pass, we volition regroup and make our enactment program to determination guardant utilizing a process that volition proceed to see input from our acquisition team, families and the community."

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