Tonight, the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) will wrap up two past local parcel taxes, and make preparations to implement a new, 7-year parcel tax approved by voters this past March.
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Yesterday, the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) suffered a setback in Alameda County Superior Court when Judge Frank Roesch overruled the District’s request to dismiss a lawsuit intended to invalidate a 7-year parcel tax enacted by voters on March 8th of this year under a ballot initiative called “Measure A.” The Alameda Unified School District Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting at an unusual time today – at twelve noon. On the agenda are labor negotiation items, including a performance review of the Superintendent, Kirsten Vital, and negotiations with Ms. Vital, and negotiations with represented and un-represented AUSD staff. Notations on the California Appellate Court docket for case A129295, the appeal of the Measure H lawsuit ruling, indicate that attorneys for the Alameda Unified School District missed the end-of-May due date to file their brief in response to the plaintiff’s appeal brief. Attorney’s for the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) have requested, and received, from California Appellate Court, 1st Appellate District, a time extension to respond to the appeal filed in the Measure H lawsuit, George Borikas as Trustee et al. v. Alameda Unified School District. The case number is A129295. Late last month, attorney David Brillant filed with the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, an appeal on behalf of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit over the uniformity of the Alameda Unified School District’s (AUSD) 2008 parcel tax, Measure H. The case number is A129295. Ronald Mooney’s Keep Alameda Schools Excellent PAC Spent Over $20,000 in the First Half of This YearThrough “Keep Alameda Schools Excellent,” a political action committee originally formed in 2008 to support the passage of Measure H, a school parcel tax, Alameda Unified School District Board of Trustees President Ron Mooney raised $14,300 in the first half of this year, and spent over $20,000. by Dennis Green With only half of Alameda’s registered voters concerned enough by the supposed plight of the schools to even vote at all, less than two thirds of those voted “Yes,” only 35 percent of registered voters, defeating the initiative. Measure E would have given this island city some of the highest school taxes in the Bay Area, if not the nation. It would have cost homeowners $659 a year, and commercial property owners as much as $9,500 per year per parcel. It would have raised $14 million a year for eight years on top of the $80 million a year going to the schools from regular property taxes. Last week, Action Alameda News reported that SunCal made a $5,000 contribution to a political action committee organized by Alameda Unified School District Board of Trustees President Ronald Mooney for Measure H over two years ago. Campaign filings by Mooney suggest that he has over $11,000 in the committee’s coffers now, and he’s not saying what it’s for. Documents recently released by the City of Alameda to provide transparency on SunCal’s expenses related to Alameda Point show a $5,000 contribution in May of 2010 to Keep Alameda Schools Excellent, the political action committee organized by Alameda Unified School District Board of Trustees President Ronald Mooney to support the passage of Measure H in 2008. Mr. Mooney has confirmed the contribution. |
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