WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.560 As many of you know, there are big time school 2 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:07.320 bond measures that pretty much everyone in the greater Fresno 3 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:11.800 area is going to be voting on next month. Close 4 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:16.000 Unified has its Measure A and the biggest one in 5 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:19.640 the whole region. Well, I guess the State Center Community 6 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:23.079 College District has the biggest of these bond initiatives. So 7 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.600 State Center Community College District is for those who don't know, 8 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:28.160 I think maybe some people have heard of it but 9 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:33.359 don't exactly understand. This is the governing entity that oversees 10 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:39.520 Fresno City College, Maderra College, closest community college Readley College. 11 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:42.520 So it's it's almost like think of it like a 12 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:47.840 massive school district, like a public school district, but it's 13 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:54.679 governing community colleges. Okay, so they've got a big bond measure. 14 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:57.679 I think it's in the seven hundred million dollar range. 15 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:01.200 Other than State Center Community College District, the biggest of 16 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:06.680 all these individual K through twelve school district bond measures 17 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:14.719 locally is Fresno Unified. Fresno Unified, which has a five 18 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:22.840 hundred million dollars bond measure proposal for Measure H. Measure 19 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:25.920 H is what it's called. If you live within the 20 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:30.959 Fresno Unified School District territories, you will be voting for 21 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:37.079 or against this bond measure, all right. And there's a 22 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:43.159 piece in GV wire that written by Nancy Price that 23 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:51.040 lists out the different projects that Fresno City wants to do, 24 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.599 wants to accomplish with all of this Measure H funding. 25 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:03.959 So I'm curious to read through it because let's also 26 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:08.280 let's just understand this. Why is Measure H for President 27 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:10.400 Unified on the ballot. Why is Measure A for Close 28 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:13.680 Unified simultaneously on the ballot for Closes unified residents. Why 29 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:16.479 is there a bond measure for Singer Unified. Why is 30 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:18.919 there a bond measure for Central Unified. Why does every 31 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:21.680 single school district and all the community college districts, why 32 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:25.520 do they all have bond measures on the ballot right now? 33 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:31.840 They have bond measures on the ballot right now. Because 34 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:38.400 when Gavin Newsom was putting together the state budget, teachers' 35 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:41.039 unions got mad that there wasn't enough money to their 36 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:44.520 liking spent on education. Newsom was trying to cut things 37 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:50.039 because revenues were not keeping up with the rate of 38 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:55.719 our spending. We were facing a massive deficit. So Newsom 39 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:59.879 was I don't know that he was actually cutting anything. 40 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.759 I'm guessing he was just lessening the rate of increase. 41 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:06.840 But Newsom was trying to deal with the fiscal realities 42 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.439 of the situation. The teachers' unions got really mad at him. 43 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:14.879 They had negotiations, and what they came up with was 44 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.319 Gavin Newsom saying, all right, well, then what I'll do 45 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:23.439 then is I'll support a statewide bond measure which is 46 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:29.439 now also on our ballots, Proposition two. So Proposition two 47 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:35.319 is a statewide ten billion dollar bond measure that all 48 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:37.719 of us are going to vote up or down on 49 00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:44.840 ten billion dollars to go towards K through twelve school 50 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:53.080 districts and also community college districts. However, those K through 51 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:55.960 twelve school districts and community college districts can get more 52 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:01.360 money if they raise Bond Measure five funding themselves, then 53 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:06.719 they can get matching funds from Prop two. If Prop 54 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:12.319 two passes, and if their local bond measure passes or go, 55 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:18.399 every single school district in the region has a bond measure. 56 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:25.800 The capstone that the largest single one in the whole 57 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:32.600 region is Measure H from Presno Unified. So I hear 58 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:36.000 that and I think, well, okay, we just did a 59 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.439 round of bond measures like this four years ago, first 60 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:44.800 of all, and you're only doing these local bond measures 61 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:48.600 because this state money is on the table. You're not 62 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:53.759 doing it because it's not an organic, you know, response 63 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:58.480 to exigen circumstances or to some emerging need. You're just 64 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:01.399 doing this because state money happens to be on the table. 65 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:06.240 You're taking advantage of this opportunity that is presenting itself 66 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:08.399 that one year ago today, I don't think any of 67 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:15.399 them anticipated would be happening. So when I hear from 68 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:19.120 Clovis Unify, like the justification before the Close Unified School 69 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:24.920 Board voted to before the Close Unified Board of Trustees 70 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:30.480 rather voted to promote its local Close Unified bond measure A, 71 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.480 the kinds of things they were talking about seemed to 72 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:39.319 me patently facially ridiculous. It was stuff like, oh, well, 73 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:42.800 we need the funding to finish Clovis South High School. 74 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.399 All right? Really, you started Close South High School without 75 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:48.000 knowing where you were going to get the funding to 76 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.839 finish it. Did you actually do that? That doesn't seem 77 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:53.360 to make a lot of sense. Oh, we need it 78 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:58.639 for ongoing maintenance and bringing buildings up to code. Ongoing 79 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:04.879 maintenance isn't somehow already part of your existing budget like 80 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:09.079 they get existing revenue. It's not like they they don't 81 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:13.920 get any revenue outside of years where they have bond measures. 82 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:24.800 So I was extremely skeptical of the different lists, the 83 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.759 list of things that Close Unified was purportedly doing. Let's 84 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:32.639 now look at this gv wire article written by Nancy 85 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:37.079 Price from gv wire about the kinds of things Presney 86 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:42.519 Unified is going to build. The revised project list for 87 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:48.399 Fresney Unified school districts, Measure H contains major renovations at Kalawa, Norseman, 88 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:52.759 and Pyle Elementary schools and Presne High School. Adds eighty 89 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:57.360 A compliance, adds eighty A back compliance bathroom renovations at 90 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:02.160 fourteen elementary schools, and adds funding for major renovation projects 91 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.199 at several schools. But to cover the cost of adding 92 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:10.120 library and cafeteria renovations at Centennial Elementary, unspecified renovations at 93 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:15.920 Kirk Elementary. Why are any of the renovations unspecified? Specify them. 94 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:20.079 That's the point we're about to work we're already voting 95 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:22.480 on this stuff. I think early voting has already started 96 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:26.079 for a lot of people. And the bathroom renovations. District 97 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:29.519 staffers trimmed thirty one million for turf, track and lights 98 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:33.839 projects at Edison and Hoover High Schools and fifteen million 99 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:38.439 for the Aviation Academy at Chandler Airport, but the district 100 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:42.360 is shifting funds from other areas to the aviation academy project. However, 101 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.040 the list retains nine million dollars for another new career 102 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:52.600 technical education program, an agricultural farm facility in the Sunnyside region. Okay, 103 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:57.040 anything that's going towards vocational work or agwork like do 104 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:02.079 that Jesuise project. Funding would increase by two point one 105 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:04.920 million in six of the seven regions, but would drop 106 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.160 by twelve point six million in the Edison region. So 107 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.519 it's talking about basically they're sort of moving money around 108 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.720 in different ways, with fifty million dollars left over for 109 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.439 deferred maintenance district wide, so basically they're breaking it up 110 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:24.040 by regions. McLain would get one hundred million dollars of funding. 111 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.360 Roosevelt we'll get ninety seven point four million dollars. Tresno 112 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.600 High we get seventy six point three million. Hooever we 113 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.439 get sixty seven point five million, Edison we get sixty 114 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:34.559 one point eight million, Bullard we'll get thirty two point 115 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:39.399 seven million. Sunnyside we get fourteen point three million. The 116 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:42.120 biggest project would be forty four point eight million to 117 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:46.559 rebuild Kalwa Elementary School in southeast Fresno with a new classroom, 118 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:51.559 building new English language classroom, building new cafeteria, relocating admin offices, 119 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:55.799 and building a library. That's nearly four million more than 120 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:58.360 the district spent on the brand new one Felipe Herrera 121 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:02.840 Elementary School that opened in twenty twenty two. So they 122 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:09.159 have other projects that they've got, and I guess it 123 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:17.919 seems again I question what was the plan without this 124 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.039 infusion of cash. Like there's a lot of talk about 125 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:26.039 eight A compliance stuff. It isn't eighty A compliance stuff 126 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:31.559 like sort of part of ongoing maintenance. Now I fully 127 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:36.600 acknowledge eighty A compliance is a huge pain in the butt. 128 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.559 And there's all kinds of tiki taky things that can 129 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:45.000 happen with you know where EIGHTYA compliance can change over 130 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.960 time in ways that don't even seem obvious, and it 131 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:53.039 can be pricey. But again, it's not like the school 132 00:09:53.080 --> 00:10:00.919 district doesn't have ongoing revenue streams. They get ongoing tax revenue. 133 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:10.399 So if it's talk about renovating existing buildings, I guess 134 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.879 I'm just curious as to how many of these projects 135 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:17.600 were already going to go ahead with existing funding, How 136 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.039 many of these projects are only going to be accomplished 137 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:29.919 with Measure H funding. How necessary are these projects really? 138 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:36.679 They also talk about the way they're allocating the spending. 139 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:40.639 Measure H is different than previous bond measures for two reasons. 140 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:43.759 The board had previously decided to look at projects through 141 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:50.399 an equity lens. We all love that word equity providing 142 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:53.399 funds to schools with the greatest needs, no matter which 143 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:56.679 region they are in. And as part of the contract 144 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:00.639 negotiated last fall with the President Teachers Association, the union 145 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.919 is collaborating with district staffers on how to allocate spending 146 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:06.960 for one third of the measure revenues, or one hundred 147 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:17.720 and sixty seven million dollars of it. Now, I guess now, 148 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.320 usually when you hear equity, it means some kind of 149 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:28.840 liberal nonsense. If equity here just means, hey, the less 150 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:33.679 well funded areas of the district should get most of 151 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.879 this money because they need more money. Okay, I guess 152 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:46.879 that makes sense. I find I do not see necessarily 153 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:51.039 the benefit of having the teachers union overseeing a third 154 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:56.039 of the spend. That's such a weird provision. The teachers' 155 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:00.759 union gets to collaborate with district staffers on how to 156 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:05.679 allocate spending, but only for a third of it. I 157 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:10.360 wonder what kind of a concession that is. That is 158 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:14.840 that that strikes me as really curious. I mean, I 159 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:17.799 don't trust the teachers' unions as far as I can 160 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:23.720 throw them. I find it interesting that this was part 161 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:27.159 of negotiations that the teachers' unions, looking into the future, 162 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.399 said okay, well, they're going to have you know, bond 163 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.559 measure funding at some point in the future, during the 164 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.360 time frame of this CBA that we're of this you know, 165 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:38.600 collectively bargain agreement that we're signing here, we want to 166 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:42.279 have a say on how some of it is spent, 167 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:46.080 so we're going to we can collaborate, but only on 168 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:52.919 a third of the spending. I mean, if they're just 169 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:55.720 collaborating and not deciding why not have them collaborate on 170 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:58.799 the whole amount of spending. And if you can only 171 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.000 trust them with a I mean, if you're in trusting 172 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.799 them with a third, that either means you don't really 173 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.159 trust their input on anything, so it should be zero, 174 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:11.120 or you trust and value their input, in which case, 175 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:13.919 why not have their input on all five hundred million. 176 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:20.480 It seems like a bizarre what a bizarre provision that is, 177 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:31.919 And it is interesting to me how the Bullard region 178 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.080 basically gets the absolute shortest end of the stick. But 179 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.279 I guess if you're looking at it in terms of okay, well, 180 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:43.720 Bullard and Sunnyside get the absolute short ends of the stick. 181 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:46.480 I guess though, if you're looking at it through they said, 182 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:48.279 we're going to do this through an equity lens, so 183 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:50.600 we'll give the most money to the regions of President 184 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:53.000 Unified that needed the most. Well, then I guess that 185 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:57.279 kind of makes sense. Bullard is there's certainly Bullard and 186 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:05.480 Sunnyside are probably the wealthier parts of as a Unified. Now, 187 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.519 I guess the thing that makes me most nervous about 188 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:14.200 all this is the timing people are getting their ballots 189 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:17.399 mailed out to them that people have their ballots already. 190 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:21.960 Early voting has already started, and it seems like the 191 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:28.559 President Unified Board of Trustees doesn't really exactly one hundred 192 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:36.080 percent have total agreement necessarily about how all this money 193 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:41.120 should be spent and where. Their article says, the project 194 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:44.000 lists for Measure H, the largest bond measure in Presdent 195 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:48.039 Unified's history, has still not been finalized, even though ballots 196 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:51.360 were mailed out to voters on Monday, two days before 197 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:54.240 the board is scheduled to meet and vote on the project. 198 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:58.919 So the Board is supposed to meet and vote on 199 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:05.240 these projects tomorrow Wednesday. Voters got their ballots in the 200 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:09.960 mail Monday, so people are expected to vote up or 201 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.240 down on Measure H when we still haven't decided exactly 202 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:15.320 where all the five hundred million dollars is supposed to go. 203 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:19.960 Board President Susan Wittrop, who represents the Boullard region, said 204 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:23.159 Monday she didn't know why staff pulled the project list 205 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:26.159 from the September twenty eighth board meeting agenda, but was 206 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:30.120 told by Superintendent Misty her that the bond consultant would 207 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:34.240 quit if there was any opposition from board members. Well, 208 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:37.840 then let the bond consultant quest what kind of a 209 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:44.279 bizarre what kind of a bizarre answer is that if 210 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:46.759 there was any opposition from board members who died and 211 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:51.440 made this guy the pope or gal Wittrop said she 212 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:54.480 has many questions about the revisions that were posted late 213 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:57.600 Friday and has asked the staff to post her questions 214 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:00.480 and their answers on the district website for board meeting 215 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:02.720 q and as nothing has been posted by a two 216 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:08.120 pm Monday, so we get these proposed revisions on Friday. 217 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.480 Ballots were shipped to people Monday. The board is supposed 218 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:19.000 to vote on it on Wednesday. All this while you know, 219 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:21.440 this is all in the context, by the way, of 220 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:25.080 a school district that already gets funding even without its 221 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:28.120 bond measure funding, and a school district that I just 222 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:33.360 don't think deserves any kind of measure of grace. Here, 223 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.279 two thirds of the kids in the school district can't 224 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:41.240 read at grade level, can't do math at grade level. 225 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:46.240 It's a school district that is failing massively at its 226 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:50.879 basic tasks. Basic task that doesn't require fancy school buildings. 227 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.759 Teaching math and teaching kids how to read hasn't changed 228 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:59.159 in the last one hundred years when we return. Just 229 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:02.320 a reminder about how much this whole thing will actually cost. 230 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:07.279 Next on the John Girardi Show, in going over this 231 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:12.119 proposed project list for Measure eights, for Measure H, which 232 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:16.200 is the Fresno Unified School Bond measure, you know, one 233 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:19.240 hundred million dollars for the McLean region, ninety seven point 234 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:21.759 four million for the Roosevelt region, seventy six point three 235 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:25.799 million for Fresno High rebuilding, this elementary school rebuilding that 236 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:29.400 blah blah blah blah blah. Let's remember the actual cost 237 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:32.880 of this whole thing, because Measure H and all of 238 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:36.039 these local bond measures are and I will repeat myself 239 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:40.519 on this, probably on several shows through election day. I 240 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:45.680 will continue to beat this drum. Measure H is a bond. 241 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:51.640 What is a bond? If you're sitting in your car 242 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.599 and you can't define it, then you probably shouldn't vote 243 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.440 for it. Okay, But let me define it for you 244 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:05.039 so you can understand. A bond is a loan to 245 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:12.319 a municipal governmental entity like a school district, like a city, 246 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:19.440 like a county, like the state, Like any loan, you 247 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:24.480 need to pay it back. But A school district doesn't 248 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:28.119 generate its own revenue. It doesn't sell a product or 249 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:33.839 a service. The only way school districts get money is 250 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:40.799 through taxpayers. Taxpayers like you. If you vote for Measure H, 251 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:45.200 you're voting to increase your taxes. You are voting to 252 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:48.799 increase your property taxes in all likelihood. Oh but but 253 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:51.519 I just rent an apartment in frozen Unified. That won't 254 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:58.720 affect me, says someone who was born yesterday or who 255 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:01.799 doesn't understand that. Hey, don't you think maybe your landlord 256 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:05.960 might pass on the cost of higher rent, pass on 257 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:08.119 the cost of his higher property taxes in the forum 258 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.960 of higher rent to you. Yes, it will eventually get you. 259 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:16.279 If you live, you will pay more. It might not 260 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:18.759 be called a tax, it might be called higher rent, 261 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:26.480 but you will pay for it. So, yeah, you will 262 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:31.759 pay more in taxes. And the five hundred million dollars 263 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:34.680 that the school district gets right away great for the 264 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:37.279 school district. But guess how much you have to pay 265 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:39.799 over the lifetime of the loan. Because again there's this 266 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:42.599 little thing called interest. It means you don't just pay 267 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:45.519 back five hundred million dollars, you're paying back more than 268 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:47.720 five hundred million dollars. That's the only reason they gave 269 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:49.240 you the loan in the first place, is so that 270 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:52.559 they could make more money off the back end. So 271 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:58.000 you then wind up paying back almost a billion dollars 272 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:01.640 in taxes. You the tax pairs of PRESNY Unified, will 273 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:07.480 pay almost a billion dollars back. And that's just how 274 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:13.400 bonds work. It is the opposite of delayed gratification. It's 275 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:17.160 eating your cake now and paying for it later. It's 276 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:22.000 borrowing money. It's borrowing money that you don't have. And 277 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:28.319 I mean, maybe for local school districts, you could argue that, 278 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:32.240 you know, these are investments that are going to last 279 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:37.599 longer than the life of the loan. If we, you know, 280 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:43.400 rebuild a falling apart, decrepit elementary school and we can 281 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:48.279 completely rebuild it, all right, that's nice. But we're also saying, oh, 282 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:51.359 we need it for updates and renovation eighty A Compliance 283 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:55.400 and renovation No. Eighty A, compliance and upkeep of buildings 284 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:59.720 that should be paid for with your ongoing revenue. The 285 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:01.720 idea that you need a special bond measure to pay 286 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:07.200 for that, that that's not smart, that's not wise. Eighty 287 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:13.519 eight compliance rules will change over time. It's weird how 288 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:17.039 EIGHTYA compliance rules change over time even though disabled people. 289 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:20.440 I mean, it's not like the kinds of maladies disabled 290 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:26.920 people have change anyway. So I understand the actual cost 291 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:31.799 of what you're voting for here, and the actual nature 292 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:34.400 of what you're voting for here. I genuinely think a 293 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:39.119 lot of people, and probably especially people who don't pay, 294 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:42.720 who don't own a home, who are renting, they have 295 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:46.119 no understanding of what a bond is. I think they 296 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:48.359 hear bond. They hear people say, oh, it's five hundred 297 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:51.200 million for Preston unifight. No, it's a billion dollars to 298 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:54.759 the taxpayers over thirty years to fund five hundred million 299 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:59.440 dollars worth of stuff for the schools. And yes, even 300 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:02.039 if you're not a property owner, you're paying for it. 301 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:06.240 You're paying for it, probably through higher rent. Hold the 302 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:09.720 rent's too damn high. Oh I think we should support 303 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:17.279 a rent control. Well, maybe don't vote for this then, okay, Like, like, 304 00:22:17.720 --> 00:22:19.759 your your rent's not going to be controlled if you're 305 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:27.119 voting for property tax increases. So again, just I don't 306 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.960 think anyone should vote for this without having a full 307 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:35.640 understanding of what a bond. Measure is a bond, is 308 00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:38.799 a loan. It is a loan to a municipal entity. 309 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:41.759 It is a loan that has to be repaid, usually 310 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:45.039 over the course of about thirty years with interest. And 311 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:48.960 I hate the fact that in the reporting on bond measures, 312 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:51.119 the only thing we hear, that, the only thing that's 313 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:52.839 in the news, and this is just standard practice in 314 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:58.400 the news is five hundred million dollar bond. What every 315 00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:03.119 news story about a bond should include is the likely 316 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:09.200 interest rate at which the likely interest rate for this loan, 317 00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:14.799 for this bond, and the likely amount of interest payment 318 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:17.119 that we will make over the lifetime of the loan, 319 00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:21.400 as well as the term of years. I think every 320 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:24.240 news story should include that. It shouldn't just be Measure 321 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:28.039 H the five hundred million dollar bond for president to 322 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:31.480 fund improvements at present unified. No, it should be Measure 323 00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:36.119 H is a five hundred million dollar bond which will 324 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:41.200 cost taxpayer, which will require blah blah blah, one billion 325 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:43.960 dollars of taxpayer funding, with an interest rate at dah 326 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:45.799 da da da da, with a term of the bond 327 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:49.400 of thirty years. Blah blah blah. Every single story about 328 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:53.200 Measure A measure. H all these bond measures should include 329 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:57.440 those provisions, and they don't. When we return the casual 330 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:04.000 awfulness of women's magazines like Cosmo and Lle Next on 331 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:11.200 the Jon Girardi Show, about two months ago, I was monitoring. 332 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:13.279 It was for a work thing. I was trying to 333 00:24:13.319 --> 00:24:16.839 monitor something about some article relating to the abortion issue 334 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:18.480 that I knew was going to be published in it. 335 00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:23.240 I was monitoring on an almost daily basis the website 336 00:24:23.359 --> 00:24:29.039 of L magazine, e ll E magazine, the women's fashion magazine. 337 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:33.319 L magazine is kind of in the same universe as 338 00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:39.799 you know, Cosmopolitan seventeen I think is one of those. 339 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:42.839 Maybe seventeen is maybe supposed to be geared towards the 340 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:47.240 younger audience, but I'm not sure now, I, as a man, 341 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:53.359 do not really have much of a history with these 342 00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:58.839 kinds of publications. Don't read them, never have read them. 343 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:05.640 They're not really written for me clearly, so I don't 344 00:25:05.640 --> 00:25:08.400 have much of a sense of them. I sort of 345 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:13.319 knew that. I mean, I know, have a sort of 346 00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:16.359 general idea that like these are women's magazines, so they're 347 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:19.960 sort of centered around a lot of like fashion stuff, 348 00:25:20.039 --> 00:25:26.480 beauty stuff, different things. That are sort of I don't know, 349 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:30.359 stereotypical women's interest. I figured because a lot of them 350 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:34.400 are major media publications that probably they were very left leaning. 351 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:45.319 And that's about the extent of my knowledge understanding opinions, views, 352 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:52.079 perceptions of women's magazines. But as I was monitoring L 353 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:57.039 magazine every day for about a two weeks stretch, I 354 00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:05.680 was just floored by the relentless pro LGBT stuff, just 355 00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:09.400 pure straight pro Democrat propaganda. Well it's like there's not 356 00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:14.319 even a vague appearance of any kind of neutrality. Just 357 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:17.759 here's Joe Biden, Joe Biden so great. Here's Jill Biden. 358 00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:20.880 Jill Biden's so great. Joe Biden's like your sexy uncle 359 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:25.160 Joe Biden. She's she's smart, sassy, and knows what she's about. 360 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:31.599 Here's a feature piece about Joe Biden's daughter, who's, you know, 361 00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:36.319 not not a total screw up the way that Hunter is. 362 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:40.799 Here's a piece about this person. It was like Biden, Biden, Biden, 363 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:43.000 Biden Biden. And then the minute Biden dropped out, it 364 00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:47.519 was Kamala Harris, Kamala is Mamala and I was I 365 00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:51.240 was reading, I was monitoring it right at the time 366 00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:57.359 when Joe dropped out and Kamala stepped into the role 367 00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:01.240 as the Democrat nominee for president, and it was just 368 00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:04.000 Mamo la, Oh my gosh, Camilaire is so cool. Just 369 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:07.440 article after article after article after article. And I had 370 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:10.559 been monitoring sort of their news and politics section and 371 00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:14.400 it's it's just relentless. And the pro abortion stuff was 372 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:18.480 just every article was abortion, abortion, abortion, abortion. You know, 373 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:22.039 this state limiting abortions terrible. This state standing up for 374 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:25.480 abortion rights is great, this state limiting abortions terrible. And 375 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:30.400 every lie, every canned pro abortion argument was just being 376 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:37.200 regurgitated mindlessly, and I was even surprised, like, wow, this 377 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.599 is I thought this was like a fashion magazine, like 378 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:45.440 they're this heavy into every article. I mean, now, granted 379 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:49.000 I was looking just in their news and politics section, 380 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:52.440 which is going to l magazine for news and politics. 381 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:57.240 Maybe that's like, you know, going to ESPN for fashion ideas, 382 00:27:57.960 --> 00:28:02.160 But nonetheless it was bizarre just how aggressive it was. 383 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:09.359 So I found this fantastic piece for National Review that 384 00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:14.920 sort of mirrored my own experience, written by Abigail Anthony 385 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:20.799 for National Review, A terrifying journey through Cosmo for just 386 00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:26.079 six dollars, I had purchased a morally corrupting poison. Before 387 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:28.720 boarding a short flight, I did what I did, what 388 00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:31.400 I imagine most twenty something women do. I bought a 389 00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:35.960 glossy magazine, Cosmopolitan. I'd never read it before, not even 390 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.519 the battered and outdated copies at the nail salon. But 391 00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:41.039 I'm always open to in flight entertainment and suggestions for 392 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:44.720 my ever growing lip gloss collection. After I merely glanced 393 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:47.599 at the headlines, tucked between the seemingly endless advertisements for 394 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:50.720 jewelry and body washes, it became clear that I wasn't 395 00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:54.519 being offered harmless suggestions for a stylish wardrobe. For just 396 00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:58.920 six dollars, I had purchased a morally corrupting poison. Editor 397 00:28:58.920 --> 00:29:02.960 in chief Jessica got Le Giles Giles not Sure, introduced 398 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:06.960 the Cosmopolitan issue with a short paragraph lamenting the bat 399 00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:15.920 blank sh blank blank the bat guano crazy election season. 400 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:20.920 Giles prefaces an article about the dawn of black centered 401 00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:26.839