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Message from the Chair – Tough Times Don’t Last – Tough People Do!

As with every aspect of American life, COVID-19 has changed the game for the education community, including the school facilities and maintenance sector.  California schools are confronted with questions on procedures and processes about cleaning and disinfecting to ensure learning environments are clean, safe and healthy. The opportunities and challenges presented by the necessity of distance learning, providing food to under-served students who might not otherwise have access to meals, and significant State funding challenges on the horizon.  CASH was born in conflict, and we are meeting these challenges as we always do through education and advocacy.

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Message from the Chair – Proposition 13: The Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020

Proposition 13: The 2020 State School Bond

AB 48 (O’Donnell) approved by the Legislature and signed by the Governor, has now become Proposition 13 and will appear on the March 3, 2020 California Primary Ballot.  Proposition 13 continues the School Facility Program (SFP) with new resources and important programmatic improvements.  CASH is urging support for Proposition 13. We need your assistance to help spread the message that approval of Proposition 13 is critical for California’s students, teachers, California’s economy, and for building, renovating and maintaining schools to ensure that they are clean, safe and healthy.

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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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High Hopes…And A lot of Work to Do

I am honored to have been chosen to lead the CASH organization during a consequential time for the school facilities community. I have been involved with CASH for more than 23 years and I am passionate about our K-12 public schools and to make them the best that they can be.  I believe that California’s students and teachers deserve classrooms that provide environments that meet the 21st Century curriculum and provide healthy and safe places of learning.

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Message From the Chair – Know Your Number

My time as Chair of the CASH Board of Directors has drawn to a close; this will be my final Message from the Chair.  It has been a pleasure and an honor to serve the CASH organization and its members, and I leave with a sense of humble accomplishment and hope for the future.  I look forward to being a resource for our incoming Chair, Julie Arthur with Palm Springs USD, as she continues CASH’s important work.  I would like to thank my colleagues on the CASH Board who I have served with, as well as each of our members for the honor of serving as your leader these past two years.  In addition, I would like to thank the CASH past chairs that have been an invaluable resource to me during the last two years.   I would like to use my last Message to reflect on what we have accomplished, as well as looking forward to future challenges for the CASH organization.

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