4,896 / 69.5% Yes votes ...... 2,152 / 30.5% No votes
   4868 (69.5%) Yes / 2136 (30.4%) No in Stanislaus County
   28 (63.6%) Yes / 16 (36.4%) No in San Joaquin County

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The achievements have been accrued by the District as a result of the visionary leadership from the Board of Trustees of the District (the 'Board'), as well as from staff members, parents, and members of the District communities. The District has benefited from a community that supports its educational institutions by establishing high standards for academic achievement while at the same time providing the means required to meet and even to surpass those expectations.

The District has a mixture of newer and older facilities. Portions of Oakdale High School and Magnolia Elementary School have been serving students and the community for more than fifty-four (54) and sixty-four (64) years respectively.

In addition, the District is using sixty-seven (67) temporary portable classrooms to provide for necessary student space.

In order to provide our local students with the same classrooms and school facilities as other California school districts, major repairs, upgrades and classroom construction are necessary to ensure these buildings will remain functional for future generations.

The Board has approved a facilities plan and identified significant repairs, upgrades and classroom construction needs due to increased enrollment that are more than the District is able to fund from currently available sources or annual revenues.

The District has successfully sought, and continues to seek, all available outside sources of funding to improve our school buildings, including local, state, and federal grants and state bond funds. Historically, the state requires that local school districts provide local funds as a condition of receipt of state matching funds.

It is necessary to seek voter approval of a bond measure in order to provide the local funding for identified school facility repairs, modernization projects, and growth needs to address student enrollment.

Today, our schools need your help. Your YES vote on Measure C will have a lasting, positive impact on our children's schools and on our community.

Measure C makes financial sense.

• The passage of Measure C will make the District eligible for over $18 million in State matching funds.
• The spending of bond money will be annually reviewed by an independent citizen's oversight committee.
• By law, Measure C funds cannot be used for administrative salaries.

• Science labs will be repaired and upgraded.
• Broken and deteriorating plumbing and sewer systems will be replaced.
• Old electrical systems will be upgraded to give students a safer learning environment.
• Leaky roofs will be repaired.
• Inadequate classroom lighting will be upgraded.
• Outdated heating systems will be repaired.
• Students will have access to additional classroom technology.
• Unsafe walkways and asphalt play areas will be replaced.
• Classrooms will be rewired to accommodate today's computers.
• Basic repairs to lighting, doors, windows, and flooring will be made to classrooms # many of which are over 40 years old!

• Oakdale High will be modernized and its campus enlarged.
• Elementary schools will be repaired and upgraded.
• New elementary classrooms will be constructed.
• Improved security systems for student safety will be installed.

(No arguments against Measure C were submitted)