Hope Elementary

Elementary School District

To support academic excellence and provide local reliable funding for local schools that cannot be taken by the State, with no proceeds used for administrators' salaries, benefits and pensions, the Hope Elementary School District ("District") proposes to extend, without increasing the tax rate, its existing high quality education parcel tax for a period of five (5), starting on July 1, 2023, at a rate of $79 per parcel per year, with an exemption available for senior citizens and certain disabled persons, and to implement accountability measures, including citizen oversight, to ensure the funds are used to help.

To modernize outdated classrooms/restrooms/school facilities to improve the quality of education; repair/replace outdated heating/ventilation/air-conditioning systems; improve safety/security; repair, construction, acquire classrooms, sites/equipment, shall the Hope Elementary School District measure be adopted to issue $47,400,000 of bonds at legal rates, levy approximately 3 cents/$100 assessed value, generating $2,800,000 annually while bonds are outstanding, with annual audits, citizens’ oversight, no money for salaries and no money taken by the State?

To support academic excellence; maintain safe facilities; fund Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programs; protect art/music programs; and provide stable funding the State cannot eliminate; shall the Hope Elementary School District levy an education parcel tax of $79 annually for five years, raising approximately $360,000 annually, provide a senior citizens' exemption, have an independent citizens' oversight committee, with no funds for administrators' salaries, and require all funds to be spent on local schools?