CONSTRUCTION VOTE MULLED BOARD MAY TRY AGAIN TO GET SCHOOL BOND PASSED.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. -- The Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale is gearing up for another possible attempt at passing a bond measure that could pay for building one or two new high schools, completing construction of Eastside High and making improvements at other campuses. The board has approved spending $21,000 to hire a consultant to help increase public awareness about the need for more facilities in the growing district. ``We are looking at the feasibility of the bond for the coming November election,'' board President Tom Pigott said. ``Obviously, we need to build new facilities and we need to upgrade some of our existing facilities, and a general obligation bond is the only feasible method to fund those projects.'' Voters in June rejected a proposed $177.5 million bond measure. Measure E was supported by 52.2 percent of the voters, short of the 55 percent needed for it to pass. The measure would have taxed property owners about $30 per $100,000 of assessed valuation annually. Trustees last week hired consultant Chris Jones to help develop a campaign to generate support for a bond measure. A decision on whether to place a bond measure on the November ballot probably will not be made before summer. Board member Al Beattie said there had not been enough time to promote Measure E to voters. ``I think we were rushed last time. We didn't have enough preliminary input. We didn't have enough time to promote it in the community, so I think that's one of the key things wrong in the last bond campaign.'' Pigott acknowledged that getting voters to pass a bond issue is a ``tough sell.'' ``The economy is good, but people have already voted in some bonds. There's a lot of bond fatigue fatigue, in engineering fatigue, in engineering, microscopic cracking of materials, especially metals, after repeated applications of stress. Fissures may be formed within pieces of metal during their manufacture when, while cooling from the molten state, out there. It's one of those things where we have to implore im·plore v. im·plored, im·plor·ing, im·plores v.tr. 1. To appeal to in supplication; beseech: implored the tribunal to have mercy. 2. upon them and tell what they stand to gain,'' Pigott said. About 25,000 students are enrolled in district schools, and some schools, including Highland High and Quartz quartz, one of the commonest of all rock-forming minerals and one of the most important constituents of the earth's crust. Chemically, it is silicon dioxide, SiO2. Hill High, have student populations of more than 3,000 -- ranging to the mid- mid- pref. Middle: midbrain. 3,000s. ``What we need to be educating the public about is the need for two new schools and reducing the population of existing schools,'' Beattie said. ``From a security standpoint The Standpoint is a newspaper published in the British Virgin Islands. It was originally published under the name Pennysaver, largely as a shopping-coupon promotional newspaper, but since emerged as one of the most influential sources of journalism in the and supervision point of view, ... 2,500 is a better number (per campus) than those higher numbers.'' Measure E, if it had passed, would have helped pay for building new high schools in southeast Palmdale and on the west side of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , completing construction of Eastside High, expanding Quartz Hill High, and adding two new science labs at Lancaster. karen.maeshiro@dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 |
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