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Official Title: Kindergarten-University Public Education
Facilities Bond Act of 2002.
Results
Official
statewide election results are available from the Secretary
of State's web site.
| Official Summary: This act provides for a bond issue
of thirteen billion fifty million dollars ($13,050,000,000) to fund necessary education
facilities to relieve overcrowding and to repair older schools. Funds will be targeted
to areas of greatest need and must be spent according to strict accountability measures.
Funds will also be used to upgrade and build new classrooms in the California Community
Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California, to provide
adequate higher education facilities to accommodate growing student enrollment. Appropriates
money from state General Fund to pay off bonds. State cost of about $26.2 billion
over 30 years to pay off both the principal ($13.05 billion) and interest ($13.15
billion) costs on the bonds. Payments of about $873 million per year. |
Web Sites
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Information unvailable |
Contact Information
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YES
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Yes on 47 for Accountability and Better Schools
111 Anza Blvd., Suite 406
Burlingame, CA 94010
(650) 340-0470 |
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info@yesprop47.com |
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Information unavailable |
Who Signed the Ballot Arguments
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YES
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 Allan Zaemberg, President, California Chamber of Commerce |
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WM. J. "Pete" Knight, Senator 17th District,
California State Senate |
| Jan Harp Domene, President, California State PTA |
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Jon Coupal, President, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association |
| Larry McCarthy , Executive Director, Assocation to Aid
Victims of Domestic Violence |
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Lewis K. Uhler, President, National Tax Limitation Committee |
| Wayne Johnson, President, California Teachers Association |
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Edward J. (Ted) Costa, Chairman, California Taxpayers Coalition |
| Bill Hauck, Co-Chair, Taxpayers for Accountability and
Better Schools |
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Ralph Morrell, President, Northern California Committee
for Limited Government |
| Barbara B. Inatsugu, President, League of Women Voters
of California |
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Ken Steadman, President, Waste Watchers, Inc. |
News Coverage
For the most current election-related news stories, CVF recommends the Rough
& Tumble web site.
(please note:
some of the links below may no longer work, because many newspaper web sites move
stories into fee-based archives after a certain amount of time) |
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| Educators rally
for $13b school bond, The Fresno Bee, October 31, 2002 |
| Prop.
47 promises millions for area campuses, The San Diego Union-Tribune,
October 29, 2002 |
| Bond
measure focuses on school repair, projected growth, The San Diego
Union-Tribune, October 17, 2002 |
| Districts
say Prop. 47 badly needed, Inland Daily Bulletin, October 10,
2002 |
| 2
school bonds get donations, Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2002 |
| Size,
timing of largest school bond in state history debated, Sacramento
Bee, October 9, 2002 |
| County school
districts lose out in latest funding round, Stockton Record, August
30, 2002 |
| $19
billion in bonds on November ballot, Oakland Tribune, July 28,
2002 |
| State
crafts $2.1 billion housing bond (and $13.5 billion education facilities bond),
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 21, 2002 |
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