The Cardiff School District board is meeting [today] (Thursday) at 5 pm in the Cardiff School auditorium to consider putting a bond proposal on the November ballot. This would result in an additional assessment on every property tax bill in the district if approved by the voters. Please attend the meeting if you have concerns about the board doing this so soon after the previous bond measure.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Cardiff school board seeks to raise property taxes
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The Cardiff School board has been discussing this privately with their "associates" without ever putting this on their agenda. This is not transparent, and there are potential Brown Act violations here. They are discussing $22M, which is more than the two schools cost to rebuild in 2003. The 2000 bond measure was passed based on the schools maintaining the schools with set aside funds. If the schools need repairs it's due to the mismanagement and incompetence of the board and the superintendent.
ReplyDeleteThe board may be maintaining a good education system, but clearly does not know how to manage facilities.
Vote NO if it gets on the ballot.
ReplyDeleteI feel for the Cardiff School Board because they are tied to Baird and that decrepit EUSD group of board members. They are just going to have to do without this time. They deserve better representation than they have with Baird and crew. If they chose to remove themselves from his oversight, then you can bet the community would support them. Better yet, fire that creep and send those school board members packing and help all the other schools at the same time.
ReplyDeleteCardiff, why don't you organize some of the other schools and mount an effort to get rid of this pariah in your midst?
"... Cardiff School Board because they are tied to Baird and that decrepit EUSD group of board members." In what way? I thought they were independent school districts with their own staffs. Please explain.
DeleteCardiff school children still have classrooms in trailers without adequate ventilation/heat/AC/lighting. Class sizes are 22 pupils per teacher and maintenance of their structures show they need repair.
ReplyDeleteWhile salaries for staff are high - we should expect the best from them.
I would rather fund schools and safe roads than spend taxes on warships and bombers.
I say make our schools better for a better community and nation!
Ada Harris was completely rebuilt (brand new school in a new location on the same property) and Cardiff Elementary was completely gutted and rebuilt in 2003. At the time it was stated that the schools would not get into disrepair once again, and that bond money would be set aside for repairs. What happened??
DeleteThe teachers at both schools are wonderful, and teacher salaries are fair. That is not the issue. The issue is the history of the most recent bond, and why we should keep having to pay? Should we just expect a new bond measure for differed maintenance every 16 years?
Cardiff elementary was not "completely gutted in rebuilt in 2003".
DeleteIt is still in need of repair. And yes, trailers are still used their for classrooms and get quite hot during those warmer days.
It was a very extensive renovation. You can read about it, and the mismanagement at the time, here.
Deletehttp://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2004/dec/12/report-cardiff-district-overbuilt-and-overspent/?#article-copy
Simple - Vote NO on all school bonds.
ReplyDeleteAmen! The problem with socialism in Encinitas (increasing taxes) is that eventually you run out of other people's money to spend.... on $750 PVD's (porn viewing devices aka Ipads).
DeleteI'm not sure you have an accurate understanding of socialism.
DeleteEconomic, political, and social systems are like three-legged stools. The three legs of the capitalist or free enterprise stool are democratic/pluralistic public choice, a non-interventionist state, and a rule of law that protects personal and economic liberty. The three legs of the socialist stool are a one-party state, pervasive intervention in economic affairs, and a lack of a rule of law to guard personal and economic freedom.
DeleteThe capitalist stool stands higher and is more stable than its socialist counterpart. Centuries of history show that capitalist, free enterprise economies have been able to grow, provide rising living standards, and innovate new technologies, contrary to Karl Marx’s belief they would inevitably collapse. Consider Germany and Korea: At the time of separation, North and South Korea had the same per capita income. Today, the Communist North has the same subsistence income as 65 years earlier, while the capitalist South’s has increased ten-fold with a thriving middle class. When the Berlin wall fell in 1989, curious West German visitors to the elite Wandlitz housing compound were surprised that East Germany’s top leaders did not live much better than they. In fact, their greatest privilege was a store stocked with West German goods within the compound grounds. Even the countries cited by the Left as positive examples of “democratic socialism”—Sweden and Denmark—gained their affluence through a century of free-enterprise growth, and they revert back to first principles when they stray too far from the model.
What Obama fails to understand is that a society’s core values will constrain its policy landscape. A rule of law challenges the power of dictators, both communist and of other stripes, such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Limited government does not produce results that Obama and his ilk accept as moral, ethical, and inclusive. Capitalist welfare states that go overboard on redistribution and fairness lose the efficiency of the market economy. The freedom of entrepreneurs to start businesses and for corporations to work in the interests of shareholders conflict with a communist/socialist state’s control of the economy.
http://www.hoover.org/research/rise-american-socialism
10:13 - 10:05 is correct - you do not have an accurate understanding of socialism, nor of capitalism in a practical sense. Get a subscription to the WSJ, the Economist and the Financial Times - it will do you good.
Delete- The Sculpin
So Germany is your example of capitalism? I agree that they are the economic growth and productivity engine of Europe, but they also have significantly higher taxes, more social safety nets, single-payer healthcare, much better infrastructure investment, free college education, strong works councils and unions.
DeleteSo which is modern Germany, a socialist hell-hole that is failing in every way, or a capitalist utopia with strong growth, low taxes, and weak government intervention?
In fact, it's neither. And it's working very well. We should be seeing what we can learn from them.
As a leftist-wing transformative president, Obama believes that a big and intrusive state “works” for the United States. Under Obama, the federal government has used its coercive power to: require citizens to purchase products they may not want (Obamacare), harass citizen groups like the Tea Party, and direct regulatory agencies to deliberately kill whole branches of the economy, like coal, while promoting industries that cannot survive in a market setting on their own, such as green energy.
DeleteBeyond these examples of coercion, most Americans do not understand that their government has and exercises vast coercive power through taxation and regulation. Rather, they associate coercion with Communist rulers, such as Stalin, Mao, the Castros, and the Kim family dynasty. Americans rarely consider the coercive and punitive power that the state holds over them.
The constitutional principle of limited government has been attacked, most intensely during the Obama, Johnson, and Roosevelt administrations. The Federal Registry of bills and regulations went from 14,500 pages in 1960 to a record 82,000 in 2015. Non-defense federal government spending rose from 8 percent of GDP in 1960 to 18 percent in 2016. A count of federal agencies yields more than 700 departments, and the federal government does not seem to know the exact number. The federal tax code is 75,000 pages. April 15, 2016 marks the first year Americans must declare whether they have purchased health-care insurance. If not, they must pay a penalty.
Unlike Communist systems that reject foreign transplants, affluent capitalist countries, such as the United States and some European nations, do not automatically reject governments that have grown too large, too intrusive, and too coercive. Vested interests play the system for special interest legislation on both sides of the aisle. Elected officials promise limited government but deliver the opposite. Costly legislation that yields narrow benefits can be packaged as essential for the public good. The behind-the-doors machinations of the executive and legislative branches have grown too complicated for voters to understand. Rather they are left with the uneasy feeling that the government is run for insiders and not for the people. Small wonder that this system has in 2016 spurred the presidential candidacies of outsiders who pledge to turn the establishment on its head.
DeleteUnfortunately, many right-wingers don't like to think for themselves. Instead they avoid critical thinking and jump straight to plagiarism. Word for word copying of entire paragraphs from here:
Deletehttp://www.hoover.org/research/rise-american-socialism
What a sad thing that you can't think for yourself and express your own opinion. You are emblematic of the modern Republican intellect. Perfectly explains the rise of Donald Trump.
We should be spending more on infrastructure as a country. Schools are a basis for our future and are dearly important to our prosperity!
ReplyDeleteSchool boards should not be allowing schools to fall into disrepair. I will not blindly vote yes on school bonds the way some do. Nor will I blindly vote no.
Delete5:29 PM I will vote NO - period.
Delete"We should NOT be spending more middle class tax payers dollars on infrastructure since our bureaucrats have robbed the coffers to pay for their outlandish retirement schemes and salaries instead maintaining and improving infrastructure along the way as any CONSERVATIVE would do. Public schools are increasingly becoming propaganda farms and the socialists will decide what our children learn.
DeleteWhat happened to pension reform?? Relegated to the same place as the passenger pigeon -extinction!
DeleteHere's a quote from the last time. Does Julie Parker think something lasting is 13 years?
ReplyDeleteFrom the above UT article:
District officials maintained that the school projects were well-planned, and said when changes had to be made, they authorized them because Cardiff only got one shot at the massive facilities overhaul.
"If we're going to do it, do it right so it's going to last," Parker said.
Don't forget when you evaluate the cost. We are already paying for the first bond in increased taxes. If this passes we will be doubling our taxes for this district. They are going to tell you that this is a good deal because it will only be $26.00 a year for every $100,000 dollars in accessed value when last time it was $35.00 dollars per $100,000 of accessed value. Because you are going to pay for BOTH taxes it really is $61.00 dollars for every $100,000 of accessed value for the first 8 years.
ReplyDeleteOur kids do need a safe place to go to school. Be sure to evaluate their plans carefully because I don't see that their plans will change the safety of the school or traffic. In fact it may cause worse traffic nightmares at school times.
I will vote NO on this bond if it makes it to the ballot.
Socialism creeping into your homes and children's minds:
Deletehttp://www.hoover.org/research/rise-american-socialism
Hahaha, 10:11. You think capitalism drives attractive behavior? Gimme, gimme, gimme.
DeleteCan anyone tell me why the Cardiff school district cannot be merged with the Encinitas School District. Cardiff has 2 elementary schools. It has a supervisor, as well as other additional personnel that EUSD also has. Seems like a waste of money to not put them under the umbrella of the EUSD.
ReplyDeleteThis is always a dilemma. The district sells a bond issue to the public claiming that it will be the bond that ends all bonds, setting the district on a sustainable course for the future. They get the new facilities, and for the first few years the reserves that they used to have to set aside for repairs and maintenance can now be used for increased salaries, benefits, junkets, and "innovative" programs that earn administrators awards. Then the once-new facilities start needing repairs again and there is no money, so they go back to the community for a new bond.
ReplyDeleteWhile no one wants their kids to go to school in substandard facilities, this cycle has got to stop, and the only way to do so is to say no to more bonds. The infusion of lots of bond money leads to very irresponsible spending putting the district in an unsustainable financial position. Districts need to be disciplined financially, and the only way to do that is to cut off the easy bond money.
Why can't we have responsible people who can say "no" on the school board. I suppose the people who run for board love the education part of the job, and not the facilities management part of the job. Maybe schools should operate in rented spaces with long term contracts.
DeleteA public education infrastructure REIT!! That's a great idea 11:28! They have them for student housing, medical properties and other specialized real estate, so why not! And since it's dependent on gov't budgets it would act more like a high yield bond - steady and consistent.....
Delete- The Sculpin
But is for the CHILLLDREENNNN. ( sniff, sniff, whimper, whimper).
ReplyDeleteMore like another junket for Baird and the Board to vacation on the taxpayers' dime. Where's Gasbag - the corruption fighter????
DeleteIt's a shame that these knee jerk anti-tax ranters just stick their fingers in their ears and spout misinformation instead of giving the district a chance to lay out the actual facts. The meetings are of an organized, invitation-only focus group, which includes a balance of conservative anti-tax advocates, school parents, teachers, and community members who have been asked to consider all of the facts, review the budget and projected costs, and advise the school on whether and how to proceed with a bond issue. Give them a chance, for crying out loud.
ReplyDeleteOh boy, it sounds like Baird or one of his lackeys has chimed in.
DeleteI am reminded of 'fool me once, fool me twice'. It takes a fool to swallow this when the past is right there before our eyes.
Sorry, if history doesn't fit within your consciousness, but it is there. Baird and his crony school board members have exhausted their value to any discussion of responsible management, in spite of several honorariums that were created to make themselves look good to the unaware.
It is a shame other schools may have to suffer for the time being, but that is the price to pay for their self-indulgent tendencies.