CUSD board set to vote on parcel tax this week
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Montclaire Elementary School, above, is the one school in the Cupertino Union School District located in Los Altos.
The Cupertino Union School District Board of Education is set to vote Thursday (Jan. 21) on whether to place a parcel tax before voters this spring.
The proposed measure would levy a $398 tax on each parcel of land within the district, which would raise roughly $14 million annually for eight years. The board is scheduled to vote on whether to put the measure on a May 4 ballot.
The new tax would replace the existing $250 Measure A parcel tax, an increase of $148 per parcel. The new $398 parcel tax would take effect July 1 and expire in eight years. It would require two-thirds voter support to pass.
Incumbents triumph in all local education races, final results show
The final results are in, and incumbents swept all of the local education races.
The County of Santa Clara Registrar of Voters Office last week formally certified the results of the Nov. 3 election.
Incumbent Grace Mah (53,033 votes, 52%) beat Melissa Baten Caswell (48,947 votes, 48%) for the local seat on the Santa Clara County Board of Education. The typically relatively obscure race generated more than $500,000 in campaign contributions.
Incumbents Sanjay Dave (25,650 votes, 34.96%) and Phil Faillace (24,562 votes, 33.47%) won re-election over challenger Laura Teksler (23,168 votes, 31.57%) for two seats on the five-member Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District Board of Trustees.