Marin County supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to take an initial step toward helping to guarantee rental income for a housing project designed to serve educators and county employees.
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Marin Schools Shouldn’t Risk their Future Finances on Oak Hill Housing Project If you care about the future of Marin’s schools and the children they educate, speak up NOW to oppose the efforts of Marin County and its Office of Education to make school districts financial guarantors of the 135-unit
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CST recently reached out to trustees and leadership at Marin County’s K-12 and community college districts to share the urgent letter below alerting them about the latest Oak Hill Workforce Housing proposal, which will make participating school districts responsible for rental property income shortfalls. This imperils schools’ financial future.
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This article, written by Richard Halstead, was published by the Marin Independent Journal on February 17, 2025
An effort to build housing for educators and county workers in Marin has a $17.4 million budget shortfall.
A plan has been floated to close the gap by having the county and school districts guarantee the rental income of the apartments in order to lower the interest rates on bonds to finance the project.
From the Marin IJ: Marin worker housing plan faces budget shortfall Read Post »
In response to the Marin Independent Journal Editorial Board’s endorsement of Kentfield, TUHSD, and Fairfax’s November 2024 bond measures, CST President Mimi Willard penned a letter to the editor calling out the disconnect between those endorsements and the condemnation of local bond measures by the editorial board of the Bay Area News Group, the IJ’s parent. Willard’s letter explains the details of these measures, the deceptive wording of their ballot language, toothless oversight, and other reasons why CST is leery of local bond measures. Read Willard’s letter to the editor in full by clicking below.
CST continues concerned about the Tax Tsunami now unfolding that will be greatly exacerbated if voters approve Proposition 5 — opposed both by the Bay Area News Group and CST— making it far easier to pass local bond tax measures. The Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers urges being selective in voting Yes on additional bond measures given the great likelihood you’ll soon be paying many, new, multiple-decade taxes for bond measures passed in the current and upcoming elections.
The Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers was approached by community leaders with the idea of jointly developing a set of guidelines to ensure local bond measures are fair, responsible, and accountable.
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