San Jose|Evergreen Community College District

Measure J - 55% Approval Required

As we plan for the road to recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, Evergreen Valley and San Jose City Colleges are working hard to ensure students have equal opportunities to access online learning, no matter what their circumstances.

Vote YES on J to ensure our Colleges have the technology and resources necessary to expand online education, continue to support high-quality learning, and keep local college education affordable through the economic recovery.

San Jose City and Evergreen Valley Colleges provide essential job training and workforce preparation for students of all ages, veterans and local residents. YES on J provides job training to students and local residents struggling to find good-paying jobs.

Your YES on J vote ensures that classrooms and educational facilities that help students learn new skills and find better paying jobs in business, biotechnology, nursing, engineering, and other high-demand careers will be upgraded and expanded.

San Jose City and Evergreen Valley Colleges serve thousands of veterans – many facing significant challenges, including post-traumatic stress disorder and permanent disability. YES on J upgrades access for disabled students and provides improved campus resources and educational opportunities so returning service members and disabled students can receive the support they need for college and careers.

Measure J is FISCALLY ACCOUNTABLE. Measure J includes strict accountability requirements, including published independent financial and performance audits and oversight by an Independent Citizen’s Oversight Committee to ensure all funds are spent effectively, efficiently, and as promised for students in our communities.

-        NO money can be spent on administrators’ salaries or pensions.

-        NO money can be taken by the state.

-        ALL funds must be spent on San Jose City and Evergreen Valley Colleges.

Join a unanimous San Jose – Evergreen Community College District Board of Trustees, local employers, community leaders, and residents in voting YES on J.

In 2010 voters approved a $268,000,000 bond measure “G” to “upgrade, acquire, construct energy-efficient technology-driven teaching classrooms, labs, sites, facilities equipment for health/science, general education/job-training, upgrade outdated electrical, plumbing, heating/ventilation systems”.

Then in 2016, just 6 years later, they got $748,000,000 bond money to do the same thing.

Now, they want a whopping $858,000,000 to do the same thing all over again! It is “deja vu” all over again.

The local TV station (NBC Bay Area) did an extensive investigation into the expenditures of the district after the passage of Measure G.

The District advertised one set of goals, then after the measure was passed, other priorities surfaced that led teachers, students, and taxpayer advocates to question the “bait and switch” tactics employed by the district.

Instead of the promised rebuilding the vocational center buildings, they opted to fund building a new theater and recording studio instead.

Clearly bait and switch by the district.

The District Board were already wrongly entrusted with $268 million to upgrade facilities in 2010, upped the ante to $748,000,000 in 2016 and now just 4 years later, they want another whopping $858 million (saddling us with another 25-30 years of debt!)… to do the same thing all over again.

Are school buildings constructed so poorly that they need repairs every 4-6 years?

They promised in 2010 to rebuild the vocational buildings but failed to do so.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But three times is idiocy.

Let us reject these bait and switch tactics by voting “NO” on Measure J.

Like us, you can be for schools, for students, for teachers, but against Measure J.

Do not reward bait and switch mismanagement, vote NO on J.

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