West Hills Community College

Community College District

To improve Coalinga College with funds that cannot be taken by the State and spent elsewhere, shall West Hills Community College District's measure to expand career training/technical educational classrooms and facilities; renovate outdated classrooms, labs, and stu•dent dorms; and improve campus safety be adopted, authorizing $19 million of bonds with estimated average levies below $24 per $100,000 of assessed valuation (approximately $1 million annually) while outstanding, with legal rates, audits, independent oversight and full public disclosure of all spending?

To construct new classrooms and labs at West Hills College Lemoore for career training in computer sciences, health sciences, nursing and paramedics, and qualify for State matching funds, shall West Hills Community College District’s measure authorizing $8.6 million in bonds be adopted with estimated levies of less than 1¢ per $100 of assessed value (raising $727,000 annually through 2039), legal interest rates, annual audits, citizens’ oversight, and no funds used for administrators’ salaries?

To improve the Firebaugh Center, including updating classroom technology, improving energy efficiency and water conservation, and upgrading campus security shall West Hills Community College District’s measure authorizing $25.1 million in short-term bonds be adopted with estimated levies of less than 3¢ per $100 of assessed value (approximately $1,694,000 annually through 2039), legal interest rates, annual audits, citizens’ oversight, no funds for administrator salaries, with all funds spent on local projects and not taken by the State and spent elsewhere?

To increase student access to computers; maintain and upgrade educational software; keep pace with 21st century technological innovations; and significantly reduce borrowing costs, shall West Hills Community College District issue $20,000,000 of short-term bonds with the interest rates at or below the legal limit, independent citizen oversight, and no money for administrator/teacher salaries, so long as all funds are spent locally and cannot be taken by the State?

To renovate, equip/construct classrooms/college facilities, upgrade computer/technology systems for student access, and reduce overall borrowing costs, shall $12,655,000 of West Hills Community College District School Facilities Improvement District No. 3 bonds, approved by voters in November 2008, be reauthorized through issuance of new bonds, with no increase in total authorized District debt, interest rates below legal limits, independent citizen oversight, no money for any salaries, and all funds spent locally and not taken by the State?