Mill Valley School District Resolution #10-03/04:
SUPPORT STATE PROPOSITION 57 (Economic Recovery Bond Act)
and STATE PROPOSITION 58 (California Balanced Budget Act)

February 11, 2004

WHEREAS, Proposition 57, the Economic Recovery Bond Act, and Proposition 58, the California Balanced Budget Act, will both appear on the March 2004 ballot; and

WHEREAS, Proposition 57 will authorize the state to issue a one-time $15 billion bond to address the state’s budget shortfall; and

WHEREAS, Proposition 58 will require an annual balanced budget, establish a rainy-day savings account and prohibit the state Legislature from adjourning until solutions to fiscal emergencies are addressed; and

WHEREAS, The two initiatives, both of which must pass in order to become operative, offer voters a fiscally responsible resolution to the budget crisis; and

WHEREAS, Propositions 57 and 58 enjoy the bipartisan support of leaders from both the state’s major political parties and is endorsed by California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, who agrees these measures are critical to the state’s economic recovery; and

WHEREAS, California schools have already endured several billion dollars in budget cuts in the past two years – and passage of Propositions 57 and 58 is critical to allow school districts to protect those valuable educational programs and services that target student achievement; and

WHEREAS, Without the passage of Propositions 57 and 58, the state faces a projected multibillion-dollar budget deficit that would require drastic budget cuts to K-12 education and other core services; and

WHEREAS, The enormity of the budget deficit absent the passage of these initiatives would also place in peril the recent significant gains in student achievement.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Mill Valley School District joins the California School Boards Association in its support of Propositions 57 & 58.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mill Valley School District Board of Trustees at a meeting held on the 11th day of February 2004, by the following vote:

AYES: 

NOES: 

ABSENT: 

ABSTAIN: 

Paula Reynolds, Clerk of the Board