Teacher layoff notifications okayed
The Board of Education undertook the grim task Tuesday night of approving notifications to dozens of teachers that they could be laid off at the end of the school year.
The district could cut the full-time equivalent of up to 102.7 teaching positions for a savings of more than $6.2 million. Some 46 temporary teachers could [...]
School board gets parcel tax recommendation
Schools Superintendent Kirsten Vital is set to recommend that the Board of Education ask Alameda voters to approve a new parcel tax to replace its existing taxes, Measures A and H. Vital is asking the board to put the tax on the ballot in June.
If approved by the school board and then, voters, the tax [...]
School board to talk tax
The Board of Education is set to talk about different scenarios for a new, replacement parcel tax, one of many big items on an action-packed agenda tonight.
District staff will present scenarios for generating between $12 million and $16 million a year by implementing a flat tax for all parcels, a charge per square foot or [...]
Updated: School board considers parcel tax plan
Updated 10:49 a.m. Wednesday, January 13
The Board of Education accepted recommendations Tuesday night on how a new parcel tax for Alameda’s schools should be structured and began the process of hashing out what it will take to gain voter approval.
Meanwhile, business owners who are suing the school district over the Measure H parcel tax insisted [...]
Group makes progress toward new parcel tax
A committee set up by Alameda Unified to help create a new parcel tax for the district has a set of suggestions for how the tax should be structured, but stopped short of saying how much taxpayers could be asked to pay.
The Board of Education is getting a presentation on this tonight.
The committee, which was [...]
UPDATED H CASES COULD SETTLE
Updated 4:04 p.m.
The Alameda Unified School District and businesses who sued over the Measure H parcel tax could settle the cases, attorneys working on them said today.
David Nied, an attorney working for the district, said the district and yacht merchant John Beery have come to a basic agreement in principle to form a committee that [...]
UPDATED Businesses appeal to public on school tax
Updated 11:48 a.m. Friday, July 31
Facing serious challenges to their lawsuits to invalidate Measure H, local businesses are taking their case against the school parcel tax to the public.
Steve Meckfessel, an owner of the marina at Marina Village, asked the school board and Superintendent Kirsten Vital to consider amending the tax in a half-page advertisement [...]
Judge finalizes latest H case ruling
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Mark Burr denied local yacht merchant and landowner John Beery’s request that he judge in Beery’s favor in the local yacht merchant’s case to invalidate the Measure H parcel tax.
Judge Burr had issued a temporary ruling denying Beery’s request to essentially decide the case in his favor, saying that [...]
Local businesses seek mediation in H case
Local business owners asked the school board Tuesday night to consider allowing them to move their legal efforts to invalidate Measure H into mediation.
The school board offered no public comment on the matter, with President Mike McMahon saying the board can’t comment on pending litigation.
Former city councilman Hadi Monsef sent the board a letter on [...]
Updated complaint in anti-H case
In this morning’s election results post we neglected to mention one more thing that happened yesterday: Attorneys for George Borikas, who filed the first of two lawsuits to invalidate Measure H, the school parcel tax, have filed an updated complaint.
To sum, it’s New! With More Lawyers! And An Extra Plaintiff or Two! And Some Other [...]
UPDATED New AUSD docs in Beery case
UPDATED 8:10 P.M.
As expected, the school district has filed its answer to local property owner and businessman John Beery’s suit to invalidate the Measure H school parcel tax. Perhaps not surprisingly, they are asking the Alameda County Superior Court to dismiss the case. Their reasoning? Beery’s lawyers made mistakes writing the summons they published in [...]
