MEASURE L, IVC’s $58.6 MILLION BOND ISSUE

November 2, 2004 (63.5% yes vote)

Ballot language: "To prepare students for jobs, four year colleges, and better serve the community by training nurses, law enforcement, and construction trades by building a new science and technology facility, modernizing all buildings, removing asbestos; upgrading security, improving student safety, repairing leaky roofs, plumbing, air conditioning; upgrading wiring for computer technology, shall the Imperial Community College District issue $58,600,000 in bonds at legal rates, with guaranteed annual audits, a citizens’ oversight committee and no money for administrators salaries?"  Full text of Ballot Measure

 

Citizens Oversight Committee for Measure LPurpose:  "to inform the public concerning the expenditure of bond revenues”
(Ed. Code 15278 through 15282)   2008 Annual Report      reports and minutes

Next meeting:  Thursday, May 13, 2010, 3:00 p.m.

Committee Members                                                                                       Term Expires

Marlene Best	Member IVC Foundation (City Manager, City of Imperial), Committee Chair	12/31/10
Amanda Brooke	Member at large (Superintendent McCabe Union Elementary School District)	12/31/10
Nicole Nicholas Gilles	Member at large	12/31/10
Timothy E. Kelley	Member representing a business organization (President/CEO Imperial Valley Economic Development Corporation)	12/31/10
Gil Perez	Member representing taxpayers association  (United Taxpayers of Imperial County)	12/31/10
Rick Webster, Jr.	Current IVC Student, Associated Student Government representative	12/31/10
Anne J. Mallory	Member at-large (County Superintendent of Schools)	12/31/10
Everett "Butch" Taylor	Retiree (retired Assoc. Superintendent El Cento Elementary School District, Part-time Benefits Counselor State Teachers Retirement System)	6/30/10

Term of office:
Initial terms began November 16, 2004, (Resolution 13141)
No member may serve more than two (2) consecutive terms. 

Members:  The committee shall consists of a minimum of seven members appointed by the Board of Trustees from a list of candidates submitting written applications and based on criteria established by Prop 39, to wit:

• one member active in a business organization
• one member active in a senior citizen’s organization
• one member in a bona-fide taxpayers association
• one member shall be a student who is both currently enrolled in the district and active in a community college group, such as student government.  The community college student may, at the discretion of the board, serve up to six months after his or her graduation.
• one member shall be active in the support and organization of a community college, such as a member of an advisory council or foundation
• two members of the community at-large appointed by the Board

Statutory Duties per Ed Code 15278 - 15282:
Actively review and report on the proper expenditure of taxpayers’ money for school construction.

Advise the public as to whether the District is in compliance with Section 1(b)(3) of Article XIIIA.

Provide oversight for both of the following:  ensuring that bond revenues are expended only for the purposes described in Article XIIIA, Section 1(b)(3), and ensuring that no funds are used for any teacher or administrative salaries or other school operating expenses.

Issue regular reports on the results of activities, at least once a year.