RES?ilifi?lGN g3 TEE 30 3 GE TEE LGS ANQELES 1E3 BESTRICE AN AWEGREZE A SPECM TAX, SEEQEFECATEGNS Gil TEE ELECTEQN GREER, Willi QCQ I 4, REAS, public education is the foundation of a thriving demOcratie society and a prosperous modern economy, and remains a proven, path towards upward mobility and creating meaningful opportimities for all Californians to succeed; and ?l REAS, the Los Angeles Uni?ed School District Uni?ed?) is committed to ensuring that all public school students, including those who attend LA. Uni?ed schools or public, nonpro?t charter schools authorized by law, lawfully operating, and located within LA. Uni?ed?s boundaries (?Local Charter Schools?), have access to a high? quality educational program, and is committed to securing adequate ?nding, for the ultimate goal of increasing student perfonnance and closing achievement gaps; and WREAS, LA. Uni?ed is committed to improving educational outcomes for all children, in keeping with its goals of 100% graduation and all students being prepared for college, career, and life; and WEEREAS, the 1978 passage of Proposition 13 in California severely limited increases in the property taxes of the state?s property owners, dramatically shitting the funding of public education from the local to the state level, and limiting LA. Uni?ed?s ability to generate revenue through property taxes; and WHEREAS, California has gone from the top of the charts in education fielding and student achievement to near the bottom. Despite being the wealthiest state in the country and the 5til largest economy in the world, California ranks 4453? in per?student funding; and WHEREAS, this failure of the State to adequately fund public education dramatically impacts LA. Unified?s ability to provide high-quality educational programs for all students, and retain and attract quality teachers and employees; and WHEREAS, LA. Uni?ed requires stable local funding to offset inadequate State ?nding; WHEREAS, Without additional funding, a major shortfall and reductions are anticipated in Fiscal Year 20214022 and beyond. If not addressed, it will be necessary to implement harmful cuts to LA. Uni?ed programs, schools and employees, including possible teacher and employee lay?offs and increased class sizes; and .I the communities of LA. Uni?ed have made it clear that we need to invest in teachers, school nurses, librarians, and other important support staff; and to provide safe, secure, healthy, clean, well?maintained, and supportive schools for all students; and WREAS, the ?nding to be provided by specialpercel tax measure (?Measure?) will remain and be used for the bene?t of all LA. Uni?ed public schools, including but not limited to K-12 schools, adult/vocational/career schools, early educatior: centers, and Local Charter Schools, with no ?mdieg going to the State; and WEEREAS, persons aged 65 or older and those receiving certain disability bene?ts would be eligible for an exemption from the cost of the Measure; and .l REAS, the Measure would require ?scal accourttebility and oversight provisions, including the creation of an account into which the proceeds from the. Measure shall be deposited, and an annual report detailing the amount of funds collected and expended, and the stems of any project, purpose or service identi?ed in. the Measure; and REAS, Section 4- of Article of the California Constitution and Sections 5007 5 and 5 0079 of the Califoroie Government Code authorize a school district, upon approval oftwo?tl1irds of the electorate voting on the Measure, to levy a special tax, herein sometimes referred to as the parcel tax, for speci?ed purposes following notice and, a public hearing; and :l MAS, the purpose of the parcel tax shall be to maintain and increase programs and services provided by LA. Uni?ed (PreK?lZ schools, adult/vocational/career schools, and early education), including Local Charter Schools,in support of students and local schools. The ?mds from this parcel tax will be used for the following specific purposes: l. Lowering class sizes; 2. Providing equitable school nursing, library, and counseling services and other health and human services for student support; 3. Providing quality instructional programs, critical school resources and materials; 4. Retaining and attracting highwquality teachers and school employees; 5. Providing Safe, secure, clean, well~meintained, supportive, arid welcoming schools; 6. Providing schools with necessary odmiois?etive services; and Supporting low~income students, English?learners, foster/homeless students, students with disabilities, students enrolled in high-need or low?performing schools, or otherwise dissdvaotaged students. .1 ERAS, funding generated by this Measure may not be used for: 1. Purchasing school lots; 2. Building or modernizing schools; 3. Funding legal settlements and liabilities; and 4. Operating schools outside the boundaries of LA. Unified. WREAS, the funding generated by this Measure to be allocated to Local Charter Schools shall be allocated based on their its?district average daily attendance (ADA). It is the intent of the Board of Education of LA. Uni?ed (?Board of Education?) that the fundirig generated by this Measure would. be shared in order to benefit students attending LA. Uni?ed schools and ie~district students attending Local Charter Schools, such that LA. Uni?ed. and Local Charter Schools receive allocations that are reasonably equivalent based on and .I REAS, the Board of Education shall establish rules, procedures. time reqmements. and standards for the allocation and distribution of the ?nding, which shall ioclade, but not be limited to, an appeal process for Local Charter Schools that requires all appeals to be presented to LA. Uni?ed and exhausted prior to the commencemeat of any judicial proceeding; and WEEKEAS, notice arid heating required under Goveromertt Code Section 50077 have been provided. NQW. TEEREFGRE, BE ET RESOLVEB THAT: Sectioo l. Resolutioa Constitutes Grdet? of Electioh. This resolution shall constitute an order of election persuant to Education Code Section 5320 et seq. Sectioe 2.. Bate aad Purpose of Electioa. Pursuaot to Section 4 of Article of the California Constitution and Government Code section 50075 et seq., as part of the regular election that shall be held within the boundaries of LA. Uni?ed on June 4, 2019, for the pmjpose of voting on a measure. substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. containing the question of whether LA. Uni?ed shall impose a parcel tax for the purposes stated therein. In addition, the full text of the ballot proposition (the ?Full Text?) attached hereto and marked as Exhibit shall appear in the ballot pamphlet. The parcel tax shall be a tax of $0.16 per square foot of building improvements pet year on each parcel of taxable real property within LA. Uni?ed. LA. Uni?ed shall provide such information to the Les Aegeles County Treasuret~Tax Collector as is necessary to assist to. the determination of the parcel number and amount of tax for: each parcel of taxable real property. The parcel tax shall be collected by the Los Angeles County Treasurer-Tax 3 Collector at the same time, in the same manner, and subject to the same penalties as ad valorem property taxes collected by the Treasrneru'l?ax Collector. Unpaid taxes shall bear interest at the same rate as the rate for unpaid ad valorern property taxes until paid. The collection of the parcel tax shall not decrease the funds available from other sources of LA. Uni?ed in any period from the effective date hereof. The parcel tax authorized by this resolutidn shall be collected in each year starting in Fiscal Year 2019 2020 by the County of Los Angclesa for a period of 12 years. ?Parcel of taxable real property? shall be de?ned as any unit ofreal property in LA. Uni?ed that receives a separate tax bill for ad valorezn property taxes from the Los Angeles County Treasurer-Tax Collector?s Office. All property that is otherwise exempt from or on which are lei/led no ad valorero property taxes in any year shall also be exempt from the parcel tax in such year. The Los Angeles County Tax Assessor?s determination of exemption or relief of any parcel from taxation for any reason shall be ?nal and binding for the purposes of the parcel tax. Taxpayers Wishing to challenge the County Assessor?s determination must do so under the procedures for correcting a misclassi?cation of property pursuant to Section 4876.5 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code or other applicable procedures. Taxpayers seeking a refund of parcel taxes paid shall follow the procedures applicable to property tax refunds pursuant to the California Revenue and Taxation Code. An exemption horn payment of the Special tax may be granted on any parcel owned by one or more persons 65 years of age or over who occupies the parcel as a principal in residence, upon application for exemption (?Senior Citizen Exemption?). An exemption ??orn payment of the special tax may be granted on any parcel owned by one or more persons receiving supplemental security income for a. disability, regardless of age, or social security disability instnance benefits, regardless of age, Whose yearly income does not exceed 250 percent of the 2012 federal poverty guidelines issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services who occupies the parcel as a principal in residence, upon application for exemption (?Disability Bene?t Recipient Exemption?). Section 3. Annual Audit and ?versigbt. LA. Uni?ed shall arrange for an external audit of any funds received under this Measure. The Board of Education shall provide a structlne and mechanisms for oversight of the expenditure of funds? Section 4. Actherity for 0rdering Election. The authority for ordering the election is contained in Section-50075 et seq. of the Government Code and Section 4 of Article of the California Constitution. Section 5. Authority for Speci?cations. The authority for the speci?cations of this election order is contained in Section 5322 of the Education Code. Seeders s. Resotatioa to (loamy Registrarmlteeorder?cahty Clerk add Cattery Seoerteteadeet of Schools, The Executive Officer of theyGoyerolng Board of Education of LA. Uni?ed is hereby directed to cause certi?ed copies of this Resolution and Order to be received not later than March 6, 2019., by the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools, and not later than March 8, 2019 by the Los Angeles County Registrar? Recorder/County Clerk (the ?County Clerk?) as the o?'cer conducting the election, and the Los Aegeles County Clerk of the Board of Supervisors (the ?County Board?). See?eo 78 Formal Notice. The Los Angeles County Superihteodect of Schools is hereby requested to prepare and execute a Formal Notice of Parcel Tax. Election and consolidation order in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit (the ?Formal Notice?), and to call the election by causing the Formal Notice to be posted in accordance with Sections 5360 et seq. of the Education Code no later than March 6, 2019, or to otherwise cause the notice to be published as permitted bylaw. The Executive Of?cer of the Governing Board of Education of LA. Uni?ed or his designed oo behalf of, and as may be requested by the County Superintendent of Schools, is authorized to cause all notices required by law in connection herewith to be published and posted as the case may be. Scatter: 8., Fall Text. The Board of Education hereby determines to include within the ballot pamphlet text substantially in the form of the Full Text attached hereto as Exhibit B, which is hereby approved and adopted by the Board of Education. Seeders h. Coedect of Electioe. Request to Registrar of Voters. Pursuant to Section 5303 of the Education Code, the Registrar of Voters is requested to take all steps to hold the election in accordance with law and these specifications, Voter Pamphlet. The Registrar of Voters is hereby requested to reprint the Measure in its entirety (the Full Text) in the voter information pamphlet to be distributed to voters pursuant to Section 13307 of the Elections Code. In the event the Full Text will not be reprinted in the voter information pamphlet in its entiretya the Registrar of Voters is hereby requested to print, immediately below the impartial analysis of the Measure, in no less than 10-point boldface type, a legend substantially as follows: The above statement is an impartial analysis of Measure If you desire a copy of the Measure, please call the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters at (phone number) and a copy will be mailed at no cost to you. Consolidation. The County Registrar and the Los Aogeles County Board of Supervisors are hereby requested to consolidate the election ordered hereby with any and all other elections to be held on June 4, 2019 odthin LA. Uni?ed. Canvass of Results. The Board of the Supervisors of the County is authorized to canvass the rehzres of the election pursuant to Section 1041 of the Elections Code. 5 Seetioe M. Aeproeetatioos The Board of Edeoatioe shall provide in each year (pursuant to Section 7902.1 of the Govemmetit Code or any successor provision of law) for any increase in LA. Uni?ed?s appropriations limit as shall be necessary to ensure that proceeds of the parcel tax may be spent for the authorized purposes. Seetioe ll. Ballet Asgemeets. The President ofthe Board of Education or her designees are hereby authorized to prepare and file with the Registrar of Voters 3. ballot argument in favor of the proposition contained in Ezdiibt-tA hereto, or act as an author of any ballot argument prepared in cosmetics with the election, including a rebuttal argument? each within the time established by the Registrar of Voters, which shall be considered the of?cial ballot arguments of the Board of Education as sponsor of the proposition. Seetioe 12. G?'?etat Aettoes. The Superintendent of LA. Uni?ed, President of the Board of Education, or their designees are hereby authorized to execute any other documents and to perform all acts necessary to place the Measure on the ballot, including making alterations in the ballot language stated in Exhibits A and hereto in order to comply with the requirements of law and of the pertinent election of?cials. Section 13. E??ectlse Eats. That this resolution shall take effect immediately from and after its adoption. ADOPTED, SIGNED and APPROVED by the Boardof Education of the Los Angeles Uni?ed School District on the 28th day of February 2019, by the following vote: estate as AYES: 6 0 \su/ President bf card of the Los Angeles I 4% 2g Attested to: Executive 2.3 of the Governing Board of the eh Los Angel sifted School District tee as esteem seagasm memes mmhmam E, .i we Mates coum?v its mnsemseeustts are it at A eias? magma SEZE ANR EGQAL SCEERGE To retain/attract quality teachers; reduce class sizes; proviEle eounseliag/nursing/library services, arts music science mal?h presehobl vocational/career education, safe/welL maintained schoels adequate instructional material?s/supplies; suppo? disadvantaged/homeless studetits; shall Los Angeles Uni?ed School Dismet levy $0.16 per square feet of _bu1ldmg mprevements manually, exempting semors/eertaia disability recipients, providing approximately $5003000g0'00 annually for 12 years, requiring annual auditsa oversight, and ?l?ding loeal scheols? ?3 aa Em EERERZ 3 FULL TEXT The following is the full text of the proposition to be presented to the voters by the Los Angeles Uni?ed School District Uni?ed?) in the ballot pamphlet: QUALITY resonate, crass Resection, also seen; SCEGOL MEASURE To retain/attract quality teachers; reduce class sizes; provide counseling/nursing/library services, arts, music, science, math, preschool, vocational/career education, safe/well? maintained schools, adequate instructional materials/supplies; support disadvantaged/homeless students; shall Los Angeles Uni?ed School District levy $0.16 per square foot of building improvements annually, exempting seniors/certain disability recipients, providing approximately $500,000,000 annually for 12 years, requiring annual audits, oversight, and funding local schools? E, AND PERPOSE This measure (?Measure?) shall be known as the ?Quality Teacher, Class Size Reduction, Local School Safety Measure? or as ?Measure The revenues raised by this Measure shall be used to provide quality educational programs to improve achievement of students in LA. Uni?ed and public, non-pro?t charter schools authorized by law, lawfully operating, and located Within LA. Uni?ed?s boundaries (?Local Charter Schools?). ii. EENBENGS LA. Uni?ed is supported by a community that is committed to creating and maintaining a high?quality learning environment for all of its approximately 694,096 PreK?lZ, early education, adult education, and Local Charter School smdents. With the support of the community, LA. Uni?ed has made major progress in improving test scores and offering educational innovations and choices to students and parents to prepare students to lead responsible and productive lives in the 21St Century. Notwithstanding LA. Unified?s efforts to continue improving student achievement and offer educational reform opportunities, the State continues to inadequately fund our local schools. California has gone from the t0p of the charts in education funding and student achievement to near the bottom. Deepite being the wealthiest state in the country and the 5th largest economy in the world, California ranks 44-th in pernstudent spending. LA. Unified needs more funding to provide safe, secure, clean, and welcoming learning and supportive working environments for everyone. Moreover, LA. Uni?ed must address its ongoing structural de?cit so that it may continue offering high~quality educational programs to all of its students. A major shortfall and reductions are anticipated in Fiscal Year 2021?2022 and beyond. If not addressed, it will be necessary to implement harmful cuts to LA. Unified programs, schools, and employees, including possible teacher and employee lay-offs and increased class sizes. The impact of these budget reductions, necessitated by insuf?cient State funding, will be endured by every student, parent, school, and employee in LA. Uni?ed. LA. Unified is striving to continue improving the quality and eXcellence of its educational programs despite the inadequate fiscal support ?orn the State. By enacting this Measure, the voters are providing Los Angeles public schools with an estimated additional $500,000,000 per year. This sum will allow LA. Unified to reduce class sizes and attract and retain quality teachers and employees to support our local schools. It Will help preserve and advance gains in student achievement; important instructional programs such as science, technology, English, and math; support for low- income students, Englishdearners, foster/homeless students, students with disabilities, students enrolled in high~need or low~perforrning schools, or otherwise disadvantaged student; and clean and safe schools. . HE. 9F PURPGSES The proceeds of this Measure shall be authorized to fund the following purposes for LA. Uni?ed schools (PreK~12 schools, adult/vocational/career schools, and early education), including Local Charter Schools: 1. Lowering class sizes; 2. Providing equitable school nursing, library, and counseling services and other health and human services for student support; 3. Providing quality instructional programs, critical school resources and materials; 4. Retaining and attracting high?quality teachers and school employees; 5. Providing safe, secure, clean, well~rnaintained, supportive, and welcoming schools; 6. Providing schools with necessary administrative services; and 7. Supporting low~income students, students, students with disabilities, students enrolled in high?need or lownperfonning schools, or otherwise disadvantaged students. The funding generated by this Measure to be allocated. to Local Charter Schools shall be allocated based on their fin-district average daily attendance (ADA). it is the intent of the Board of Education that the funding generated by this Measure shall be shared in order to bene?t students attending LA. Uni?ed schools and in~district students attending Local Charter Schools: such that LA. Unified and Local Charter Schools receive allocations that are reasonably equivalent based on ADA. The Board of Education shall establish rules, procedures, time requirements, and standards for the allocation and distribution of the funding, which shall include, but not be limited to, an appeal process for Local Charter Schools that requires all appeals to be presented to LA. Unified and exhausted prior to the commencement of any judicial proceeding. Funding generated by this Measure may not be used for: 1. Purchasing school lots; 2. Building or modernizing schools; 3. Funding legal settlements and liabilities; and 4. Operating schoOls outside the boundaries of LA. Unified. EV. TAX LEVY A special tax shall be levied on parcels in LA. Unified, to be operative immediately upon passage, as follows. A. Tax Base and Rate 1. The parcel tax of $0.16 per square foot of building improvements per year Shall be levied on every parcel of taxable real property. ?Parcel of taxable real property? means any unit of real property in LA. Uni?ed that receives a separate tax bill for ad valorem property taxes from the Los Angeles County Treasurer?Tax Collector?s Office. ?Improved building square footage? means the square footage of all buildings or structures erected on or affixed to the land. All property that is otherwise exempt from or on which are levied no ad valorein property taxes in any year shall also be exempt from the parcel tax in such year. 2. An exemption from payment of the parcel tax may be granted on any parcel owned by one or more persons 65 years of age or over who occupies the parcel as a principal in residence, upon application for exemption (?Senior Citizen Exemption?). 3. An exemption from payment of the parcel tax may be granted on any parcel owned by one or more persons receiving supplemental security income for a disability, regardless of age, or social security disability insurance bene?ts, regardless of age, Whose yearly income does not exceed 250 percent of the 2012 federal poverty guidelines issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, who occupies the parcel as a principal in residence, upon application for exemption (?Disability Bene?t Recipient Exemption?). 4-. LA. Uni?ed shall provide the Los Angeles County Treasurer~Tax Collector a report indicating the parcel number and amount of tax for each parcel of taxable real property. 3. Term The levy shall be effective in the 2019~2020 fiscal year, and shall continue to be effective for '12 years. C. Constitutional Spending Limit Pursuant to Article of the California Constitution, the Constitutional Appropriations Limit of LA. Uni?ed shall be increased by the amount collected by the levy of this parcel tax in accordance with the applicable requirements of the, state law. Collection LA. Unified may request that the parcel tax be collected by the County of Los Angeles, or other designated agency. The collection of taxes under this Measure, including the imposition of penalties, additional fees, and interest upon persons who fail to remit the parcel tax imposed by this Measure, or who fail to remit any delinquent remittance, shall be subject to and governed by the rules, regulations, and procedures authorized by law. Every penalty imposed and such interest as accrues under the provisions of this Measure shall become a part of the tax herein required to be paid to LA. Uni?ed. E. Severability The provisions of this Measure shall not apply to any person, association or corporation or to any property as to Whom or which it is beyond the power of A Unified to impose the tax herein provided. If any sentence, clause, section, or part of this Measure or any tax against any individual or any groups speci?ed herein is found to be unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality, or invalidity shall affect only such clause, sentence, or part of this Measure and shall not effector impair any of the remaining provisions sentences, clauses, sections, or other parts of this Measure It 18 hereby declared to be the intention of the electorate that this Measure would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid sentence, clause, section, or part thereof, not been included. V. PUBLIC OVERSIGHT The proceeds collected under this Measure shall be applied only for the specific purposes identi?ed above. The proceeds shall be deposited into an account, which shall be kept separate and apart from other accounts of LA. Unified. No later than January 1 of each year while the tax is in effect, commencing January 1, 2020, the LA. Unified Chief Fiscal Officer shall direct the preparation of an armaal independent ?nancial audit detailing the amount of funds collected and expended during the current fiscal year, and the status of any project or description of any programs authorized to be funded by this Measure. The annual independent financial audit shall be ?led with the Board of Education, and such audit shall be made public, including posting on the L. A. Unified website. Local Charter Schools shall include, in the annual audit required by their charters, a separate accounting of their use of funds they have received pursuant to this Measure, including compliance with its authorized purposes It is the intent of the Board of Education that there be strict oversight, transparency and accountability for the expenditure of funds generated by this Measure Upon approval of this Measure, the Board of Education shall provide a structure and mechanisms for independent oversight Cl? GE PARCEL ELECTEGN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the qualified electors of the Los Angeles Uni?ed School District of Los Angeles County, California that 111 accordance with the provisions of the Education Code and the Government Code of the State of California, an election will be held on June 4 20l9 for the purpose of submitting to the quali?ed electors of A Uni?ed the proposition smnmaiized as follows: CLASS SEZE AWE LQCAL SAFETY WASW To retain/attract quality teachers; reduce class sizes; provide counseling/norsiog/lihrary seryicesa arts, music, science, math, preschool, vocational/career educationa Safe/well?maintained schools, adequate instructional materials/ supplies; support disadvantaged/homeless students; shall Los Angeles Uni?ed School District levy $0.16 per square foot of building improvements annually, exempting seniors/ certain disability recipients, providing approximately $500, 000, 000 annually for 12 years requiring annual audits, oversight and ?nding local schools? By execution of this formal Notice of Election the County Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County orders consolidation of the election with such other elections as may be held on the same day 111 the same territory or in temtory that is in part the same. The County Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County, by this Notice of Election, has called the election pursuant to a Resolution and Order of the Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District adopted February 28, 2019, in accordance with the provisions of Education Code Sections 5302, 5325 and 5361. WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this day, County Superintendent of Schools Los Angeles County? California 33 till it? it? 1N THE L21 ANGELES UMBEEB BE ms ANGELES 39mm CALEEGRNEA GT ME 2339 "Pursuant. Eo Section 1 of Articie ofihe California Educatiqn Code ?5361 and ?5325 and Government Code ?50075 a: sag} iE whereby Brderc? by the Les Ang?ies CBu?nEy? Bf Schob'is that: an 61361397 b: 9? ducted Withiz: Ehe boundaries of :he L05 Angales Uni?ed Schoo (USD) 931 Jun: 019 .. legai, settiements B113 and .ppera. 52119 933 from Eh? ams cra?iida schaol resources Employees} provxde safe neces?ary. servmes; meless siudents students with 3 Btu Bis emo?ed in high?need or 10W: performing schools, or etherwzse ?xsadvantage students The Les Aageles COunty Clerk wii lpetfmm ali Elie dutres maiden: to the pregaratmn for and homing Bf the above~mentmnec? election. The Los Angeies 33L.) Wili pay casts ofthe electxoxg The Wm canvass the returns of the Election. Ali matters partammg t9 the conduct of Ehts l?ction shail be under the provisions 9f Eh: appropnate secticms cf the E?acatioa Lani: Etcc?on Code-s DEBRA DUARDO Ed Les Angcles Canniy Superintendent of Schools MA Grafton, Dixectoi? Busia??ss Advisory Sax-vices March 1, 2019