School bond issue

[Sara Gregory]

I want to write in support of funding option D for an education bond. I looked through the consultant presentation and firmly believe that this is the best option. I have/have had children at Carrboro Elementary, Seawell Elementary, and Smith middle and all of the buildings have major issues. At Seawell, the teachers in the outward "pod" buildings routinely have to place sandbags in front of their classroom doors when it rains and it still often floods. At Carrboro, there has been no money to fix the lights over the playground area that after-school uses. The solution has been that the custodians leave the classroom lights on for the rooms that border that area in hopes that it allows some lights on the outside walk-way areas. This is extremely inefficient and obviously a safety hazard. I have heard of many roof leaks over the years in various classrooms at all schools. My daughter's science classroom at Smith middle has obvious water damage on the ceiling tiles and mold growth.

We cannot claim to have excellent schools while also having such large facility issues as I have mentioned above. It very much interferes with learning and pulls teacher attention away from teaching to becoming custodians and maintenance staff for their classrooms. Please put forth option D for a funding bond proposal in support of our schools.

Sara Gregory

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Sara Perron Gregory
sara.p....@gmail.com

[Jamezetta Bedford]

On behalf of the BOCC, thank you for emailing us about this matter.  I am going to respond with copy/paste to the many many residents who emailed today to support Option D for the November schools bond. Here's a chart of the tax increase and it's annual impact on a $500,000 home:

Scenario A1      4.00 cents   $130M school bond and $75M debt co facilities      Tax increase of $200.00

Scenario A2      4.57 cents   $130M school bond and $130M debt co facilities                               $228.50

C1                       7.89 cents   $400M school bond and $130M debt co facilities                               $394.50

C2                      8.66 cents    $300M bond and $100M pay-go schools and $130M co facilities    $433.00

D                       11.22 cents   $630M school bond and $130M debt co facilities                               $561.00

Middle              5.49 cents    $200M bond and $50M pay-go schools and $75M co facilities         $274.50

H                        8.06 cents   $300M bond and $100M pay-go schools and $75M co facilities       $403.00

B                        8.47 cents    $300M bond and $100M pay-go schools and $130M co facilities                                                                                   and push $17.9 county projects out past yr 10                                  $423.50

See https://orangecountync.gov/1707/BOCC-Agendas Select 2024 multiple files and click on the agenda for 1/16/24 for the full agenda item.  

Sincerely,

Jamezetta Bedford, Chair

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From: Sara Gregory <sara.p....@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2024 9:48 AM
To: ALL_BOCC_MANAGER_CLERK
Subject: [EXTERNAL MAIL!] School bond issue