The Committee will meet quarterly in the Benicia Unified School District Board Room, 350 East K Street.   The next meeting is scheduled for January 31, 2017 1:30 P.M.

The voters passed Measure S on the June ballot and were then obligated to establish a Citizen’s Oversight Committee.   The Oversight Committee will meet at least once a year and will inform the public about the expenditure of bond revenues. The primary role of the Committee is to review expenditures and confirm they are consistent with projects which were identified on the voter ballot.  Per The Brown Act, meetings are open to the public, anyone can attend the Citizen’s Bond Oversight Committee meetings. The Committee can only take action on items that are listed on the agenda. Each speaker is limited to not more than three minutes under Public Comments and three minutes on non-public hearing agenda items. No one may speak more than once on an agenda item or during “public comments.” After having heard from the public, the agenda item will be closed to the public. Deliberations will then be limited to members of the Committee.  The term of each CBOC member is two years.  In accordance with the CBOC bylaws, no member may serve more than (3) consecutive terms and the BUSD school Board shall appoint the CBOC members after a recommendation from the BUSD Superintendent who has solicited applications for memberships.

The Governing Board considered and approved members for the Oversight Committee at the Board meeting on October 16th, 2014. The 2014 committee selected consisted of: Ron Arrants, Ellen Blaufarb, Pierre Bidou, Scott Burford, Scott McClure, Patricia Lopes, and Abigail Schaudel.   The term of five of the initial members ended in October 2016.  Public solicitation was advertised via local newspaper advertising and posting on the BUSD website.  At the September 15th Board Meeting the following five new members joined the two incumbents to create our new committee comprised of:  Ron Arrants, Scott Burford, Scott MCclure, Patricia Lopes , Todd Blaettler, Linda Cole and David Sells.

October 25, 2016 was the first meeting with the three new members.  The Committee voted to elect returning members Scott Burford as the new Committee Chair and Steve McClure as the Vice Chair.

1.     Benicia Middle School Modernization:   Construction start estimated  2018

2.      Robert Semple Elementary School and Mary Farmar Elementary School Fire Alarm Upgrades.  Construction start estimated summer 2018.

 

Preliminary List of Remaning Projects to be funded with Measure S Bond Monies

Joe Henderson and Libery High School Fire Alarm upgrades

Elementary School and or BHS improvements

BHS Gym Floor

Alternative Education improvements

 

The projects were identified through a process that began with our Facilities Master Plan.  This document was developed via a series of public meetings at each school site as well as an evaluation for each building by the Architect for structural and other needs.  Recommendations were then brought to the Board and the document was approved in it’s format as shown in the link below.  Projects identified in the Phase 1 group are higher priority than projects in the Phase 2 group, et al.  The document is intended as a guide and can be modified by the District as needed.