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Governor Signs AB 48!

Governor Gavin Newsom held a signing ceremony yesterday for AB 48 (O’Donnell) – the $15 Billion Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020.

School Board Resolutions Requested
We have prepared a sample School Board Resolution in support of AB 48. We are asking all School Districts, County Offices of Education and Community College Districts to please ask your Boards to pass a resolution in support.

Associate Members, please ensure your clients are aware of the importance of passing the $15 Billion Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020 and request their boards pass a resolution in support.

Please send Board Resolutions to Aileen at adalen@m-w-h.com.  Thank you all for your ongoing support!
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SAB Approves Priority Funding Apportionments

The State Allocation Board (Board) met on Wednesday, September 25 to hear a number of business items, including approval of Priority Funding apportionments and adoption of Career Technical Education Facilities Program and Charter School Facilities Program regulatory amendments.

Gayle Miller, the Board chair, congratulated Assembly Member O’Donnell and others for the passage of AB 48, which, if signed by the Governor, will place the 2020 state school bond on the ballot.

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CASH Call to Action: Tell the Governor to Sign SB 268

We need your help to urge Governor Newsom to sign SB 268 (Wiener).  SB 268 addresses the issues created by AB 195 (Obernolte, 2017), which requires local bonds and other tax measures to include problematic information on the ballot label.

We are asking our CASH members, including school districts and associates, to send a letter to the Governor requesting his signature on SB 268.  The bill was passed by the Legislature on Friday, September 13, and the Governor has until October 13 to sign or veto the bill.

Time is of the essence; please submit your letters as soon as possible!

Click here for a template letter.

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Update on Assembly Bill 48 (O’Donnell)

A lot has gone on in the past week.  We now have more clarity on the final version of AB 48.  We will provide more detail as we go through the significant number of program amendments that are contained in the September 10 amendments to AB 48. The bill has been set in the Senate Education Committee for tomorrow morning, September 12, 2019, at 8:30 a.m.

For your information, we have a 30,000 foot level summary, a link to the changes to current law, and please click here to view the CASH letter sent to the Senate Education Committee today,  which will also be delivered to the full Legislature.

CASH has never opposed a state school bond but has raised concerns.  We are continuing that precedent of not opposing but raising concerns.

 

~CASH Staff

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Keeping Our Eye on the Ball

In my inaugural Message from the Chair, I thanked Don Ulrich for his leadership as the outgoing CASH Chair and formally introduced myself to you.  I spoke of having ‘high hopes’ for faster implementation of State bond funds for California schools, but ‘hope’ is not a strategy.   My primary focus as Chair of the CASH Board: Full implementation of Proposition 51 to fund previously approved School Facility Program (SFP) projects and support for a 2020 bond as a bridge to a sustainable capital funding system to address current and future needs.  In this Message, I will provide updates to our membership on these foundational issues for the organization.

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