[Lwvcnmtopics] APS School Bonds and Mill Levy questions on ballot

[Rachel Hertzman]

Thank you.

Is there anything being done about the printed, erroneous Voter Guides
still being distributed at libraries and voting centers and throughout the
District?  Should the existing copies be pulled and replaced with the
correct information?

It's a pretty significant error given that this is the biggest municipal
bond.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 9:50 PM Michelle Meaders <shellout at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Thanks for sending this.  If others want to see this info, it’s on the
> LWVCNM website, at Bernalillo County Consolidated Municipal Election –
> LWVCNM
> <https://www.lwvcnm.org/bernalillo-county-consolidated-municipal-election/>
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> Unfortunately, further down the page there are several errors in the list
> of candidates, compared to the SOS’s list..  I sent Starlyn and Cheryl that
> info on Monday.
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> Michelle Meaders
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> *From: *Rachel Hertzman <hertzman.rachel at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, October 20, 2021 7:10 PM
> *To: *lwvcnmtopics at mailman.swcp.com
> *Subject: *[Lwvcnmtopics] APS School Bonds and Mill Levy questions on
> ballot
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> Hello,
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> Thanks for the LWV Guide for the Upcoming Election!
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> One quick and important point: The wrong information was published in
> terms of the questions for the APS school bond and mill levy questions.
> What was published was from 2019.
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> The correct school bonds question on the ballot follow:
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> 1) GO Bonds:
> Albuquerque Public Schools General Obligation Bond
>
> *General Obligation Bond Question $200 Million*
>
> “Shall the Albuquerque Municipal School District No. 12 be authorized to
> issue up to $200,000,000 of general obligation bonds for the purpose of
>
> (1) erecting, remodeling, making additions to and furnishing school
> buildings,
>
> (2) purchasing or improving school grounds,
>
> (3) purchasing computer software and hardware for student use in public
> schools,
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> (4) providing matching funds for capital outlay projects funded pursuant
> to the Public School Capital Outlay Act,
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> or (5) any combination of these purposes?”
>
> Yes - For the Measure
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> No - Against the Measure
>
> 2) Mill Levy
> Albuquerque Public Schools Mill Levy Question
>
> *Mill Levy Question: $430 million collected over 6 years*
>
> “Shall the Albuquerque Municipal School District No. 12 impose a property
> tax levy of $3.838 per each $1,000.00 of net taxable value of residential
> property and $4.344 per each $1,000.00 of net taxable value of
> non-residential property allocated to the Albuquerque Municipal School
> District No. 12 for the property tax years 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and
> 2027 for the purposes of
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> A. erecting, remodeling, making additions to, providing equipment for or
> furnishing public school buildings;
>
> B. payments made pursuant to a financing agreement entered into by a
> school district or a charter school for the leasing of a building or other
> real property with an option to purchase for a price that is reduced
> according to payments made;
>
> C. purchasing or improving public school grounds;
>
> D. purchasing activity vehicles for transporting students to and from
> extracurricular school activities; provided that this authorization for
> expenditure does not apply to school districts with a student MEM greater
> than sixty thousand;
>
> E. administering the projects undertaken pursuant to Subsections A and C
> of this section, including expenditures for facility maintenance software,
> project management software, project oversight and district personnel
> specifically related to administration of projects funded by the Public
> School Buildings Act; provided that expenditures pursuant to this
> subsection shall not exceed five percent of the total project costs; and
>
> F. purchasing and installing education technology improvements, excluding
> salary expenses of school district employees, but including tools used in
> the educational process that constitute learning and administrative
> resources, and which may also include:
>
> (1) satellite, copper and fiber-optic transmission; computer and network
> connection devices; digital communication equipment, including voice, video
> and data equipment; servers; switches; portable media devices, such as
> discs and drives to contain data for electronic storage and playback; and
> purchase or lease of software licenses or other technologies and services,
> maintenance, equipment and computer infrastructure information, techniques
> and tools used to implement technology in schools and related facilities;
> and
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> (2) improvements, alterations and modifications to, or expansions of,
> existing buildings or tangible personal property necessary or advisable to
> house or otherwise accommodate any of the tools listed in this subsection.
>
> Yes - For the Measure
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> No - Against the Measure
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