SAUSALITO MARIN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT CELEBRATES VOTER APPROVAL OF $15.9 MILLION BOND MEASURE. - Press Release SMCSD- November 4, 2004

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Wednesday, November 3, 2004

Contact: Kathy Blazei: 415-332-3190

For Immediate Release: SAUSALITO MARIN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT CELEBRATES VOTER APPROVAL OF $15.9 MILLION BOND MEASURE.


“This is definitely a vote of confidence,” George Stratigos, President of the Sausalito Marin City School District’s Board of Trustees said late Tuesday night, when it was clear that Measure I, a $15.9 million bond providing for the construction of a new middle school and improvements to all the district’s facilities, had been overwhelmingly approved by 73% of the district’s voters.

“The last five years has brought many positive changes,” district superintendent Rose Marie Roberson said. “The support of the voters for this measure is an important endorsement of those changes, and of the direction in which we are moving.” This approval confirms that the higher the expectation, the greater the achievement.

The community recalled the entire board in 1998. “That recall put us on a different path,” said Stratigos, “Today our test scores have doubled, the district has a charter school, and it has also organized a middle school that is situated on its own campus.”

The bond measure will fund reconstruction of the aging North Bay school facility that now houses the district’s seventh and eighth grades. “Now we have the funds to build the middle school that this community needs and deserves,” a pleased Roberson reports. “In addition; our kindergarten classes will have a new facility after being housed in portable structures for the past forty years. We will also modernize and bring our district into state compliance.”

“It’s been a long journey for change but one worth taking,” Stratigos adds. “Our children will have the opportunity to learn in quality facilities with the rest of their peers in Marin County. It does take a village. I’m so proud that Sausalito Marin City shares a vision of excellence in education for all.”

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