Posted by I (heart) SBCC on May 17, 2008, 7:05 am, in reply to "Re: Vote "NO" on Measure "V"!"
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Civil liberties are useless if misused to spread lies and misinformation, Pedro. Then they do become the tools of "Nazi" Germany or Bush's Amerika.
1. The college did not pay for Mary Rose to coordinate the Measure V campaign. The Channels made a material error and has not corrected this. Private donors fund this campaign as it is illegal to use taxpayer college money for this activity. Do your homework better.
2. The portable are on campus to hold classes in buildings currently undergoing remodeling. Stay tuned with the campus building plan and do not spread unnecessary rumors.
3. First the portables had to replace the Earth-Science building when it was gutted totally and remodeled top to bottom into the wonderful, modern building students deserve.
4. Next is Physics classroom remodeling and the really big one coming after that is replacing the entire Drama Music department into those portables while the Garvin is updated after 30 years of hard use and handicap accessability problems.
5. No one is merely educating "other people's children" at their expense. The vast majority of SBCC students both on the Mesa and Adult Ed campuses already live here. SBCC is the first choice for college for over 50% of local highschool graduates.
6. One quarter of local residents take Adult Ed classes. These are the people who will benefit from this bond issue. You are creating unsupported red-herring issues. Why is that?
7. $8.50 more a year is an extremely good investment to keep SBCC the wonderful jewel it always has been for this community. Longtime property owners on fixed incomes will rarely pay more than $8.50 a year and you need to get this message across. This means only about $4.00 per property tax statement.
8. This bond is a bargain and SBCC has not increased property taxes for over 30 or so years when it asked residents to purchase the West Campus land that was slated for condo development. SBCC manages its money extremely well to ask for so little for so long.
9. The portable buildings will be gone once the remodeling programs are finished in approximately 2016. The new media and technology building has long been planned and once it is built, the rest of the portables placed on the campus for overflow office space for instructors and staff who now have to work in those portables will have a new and permanent home.
10. You are taking only a superficial look at what this college with all groups present have had in the public planning process for years.
11. The state recently pulled the plug spending state money to help campuses ith their building needs. SBCC has to get this money now from the local community. The local community benefits 100 times over investing in SBCC.
12. Don't worry about your nurse at cottage hospital coming from "out of the district" to get trained at SBCC, Worry more about him or her not getting trained and wanting to work at Cottage hospital in the first place.
13. Helping the local community works two ways. Educating local students is one way and meeting local needs is another. SBCC continues to be highly responsive to both.
SBCC i doing a great job for this community. It is what helps make this the very community you want to protect.
Please don't lie about SBCC. Thank you.
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