Pulling a poker chip out of a bag, the OC Registrar of Voters on Monday randomly selected which ballot argument against a $496 million Anaheim Union High School District bond measure will be printed in the information guide sent to voters for the November election.
The drawing was required since two arguments against the measure were submitted. Stanton resident Kevin Carr’s ballot argument against the measure was selected to be in the voter guide – the district serves junior high and high school students in Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, La Palma and Stanton. Anaheim resident Emili DeCew had filed the other ballot argument against the measure that was not chosen in the random drawing.
Registrar of Voters Bob Page did the public drawing Monday morning at the Registrar’s office and the event was livestreamed online.
In the livestream, Page showed the two poker chips to the camera that had Carr’s and DeCew’s last name written on them. He placed them into a black bag, shook them around and pulled out the chip with Carr’s name on it.
The Anaheim Union High School District is asking voters to approve raising $496 million through the sale of bonds to finance repairs to infrastructure at schools and modernizing classrooms.
The bond will be paid for through an assessment added to property tax bills in the district.
The school district estimates that property owners will pay an extra $30 a year per $100,000 of assessed valuation if the bond measure passes. The tax is expected to be collected until the bond is paid off around the year 2056.
The measure needs approval from 55% of voters to pass. California law prohibits the bond proceeds from being used on teacher or administrator salaries.
The district’s board of trustees agreed to place the measure on people’s ballots at its July 18 meeting.
The Registrar of Voters will begin sending the voter information guide in late September. Ballots will start being mailed on Oct. 7.
Election day is Nov. 5.
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