“San Diego is changing,” as John Lee Evans told the crowd at the San Diego Unified school board meeting Tuesday night. Developers and builders, accustomed to calling the shots here, are losing their grip in a sea change of increased community involvement and attention to the needs of working people.
Evans and his fellow board members Shelia Jackson and Richard Barrera are part of that change. They voted Tuesday to make sure the money from school construction and renovation bonds stays in the community and gives youth and families in the district a chance at quality jobs with health insurance and stable, middle-class careers.
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The San Diego Unified School Board is closing in on a crucial decision, a chance to ensure that the spending of $2.1 billion in bond funds benefits the local economy and local families as much as possible.
On the board’s agenda next Tuesday is a Project Stabilization Agreement (PSA) for school construction and renovation projects funded with Prop S bonds. Approving the negotiated agreement will mean that more of the 10,000 new jobs will:
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Building industry interest groups are financing a desperate attack on the San Diego school board, trying to block an important opportunity to create middle-class careers for students and the low-income San Diego communities that need them most.
The democratically elected board members of the San Diego Unified School District had the good business sense to vote to negotiate a Project Stabilization Agreement for all construction projects funded with the $2.1 billion from Proposition S.
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