The Santa Monica School District is to be patted on the back for its triumphant passage of Proposition R, the open-ended blank check Santa Monica District parcel tax.
The PTAs, teachers union and suppliers that funded the R campaign failed to disclose that the school district consultant, DecisionInsite, informed the district months ago that the enrollment in the Santa Monica School District is expected to drop radically over the next four years and that the school board is considering once again opening the school classrooms in Malibu and Santa Monica to outside the district students, hoping to keep the classrooms filled, according to the Santa Monica Daily Press interview with Board Vice President Jose Escarce.
In exchange for lower classroom student to teacher ratio, the current parcel taxes, which will be replaced by Proposition R, are expected to mushroom to an increase of 400 percent or higher over what they are currently, with Malibu property owners once again paying an unwarranted amount of the costs.
With the imminent future predicting many newly imported students to all Malibu Schools, plus the upcoming opening of the Santa Monica Junior College in mid-Malibu, the Malibu City Council should be looking at keeping PCH green and free from work bound gridlock and not arguing un-enforceable plastic foam laws while we property owners mull the increased property taxes.
And that is all I have to say,
Tom Fakehany