The Malibu Times publisher Arnold York has never seen a school bond measure he didn’t like. I hope he can see through the Santa Monica City Council’s thievery concealed in School Bond Measure BB, to be voted on by Malibuites in November. Although there are many versions of the upcoming School Bond Measure BB, and a lot of mis-telling, all Malibuites deserve to know the chronicle behind this latest of the six bonds measures to be applied to our local Malibu property taxes, if passed. The complex nonsensical language of Measure BB hides the bona fide facts.
In brief, what I read in the Santa Monica news media investigating gossip is that the City of Santa Monica City Council has voted to increase its 80,000 inhabitants to 180,000 population. How? More renters! Increase rental living space throughout the city! Multifamily residences and rapid growth! The Malibu City Council is resolute in keeping their guiding principle of slow growth in place.
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District says that with the projected development in Santa Monica it will bring more children and Santa Monica will need more Santa Monica schools. Three hundred million or more dollars will be needed to achieve this Blank Check Educational Explosion in the extended future, but in the short haul only $160 million dollars is needed to start the new expanded educational system, 60 percent of the income from Malibu landowners. Thus Measure BB or, as I heard it called, “Bankrupt Barovsky” or any other Malibu landowner.
Dear Malibuite, consider yourself privileged and thrilled to be paying millions of dollars in additional taxes for the growth expansion decisions of the City of Santa Monica renter’s council. Again a district wide educational Blank Check will enable the renters of Santa Monica to harness the income of Malibu homeowners with years of additional bond obligations.
And that is all I have to say.
Tom Fakehany