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Thank you OCS Community!

Thank you for turning out to vote on the Capital Project Referendum. Final results of the vote are as follows:

Propostition 1: Yes: 278 No: 125

Proposition II: Yes: 298 No: 109

Construction is slated to begin in Summer of 2011 and to be completed in the Summer of 2013.

The updating of the facilities infrastructure will substantially reduce our school district’s utility usage and consequently, our utility cost expenditures.

The capital project will:

Þ     Address the health and safety of our students, staff, and community members

Þ     Improve student instructional and staff training areas

Þ     Support our ongoing goal to improve our energy efficiency and reduce utility usage and cost

Þ     Control the project cost while maintaining our current school tax rate

Our school district currently has a serial bond that will retire in June of 2010.The borrowing power of this bond debt service along with voter approved usage of our Capital Project fund balance will allow us to facilitate a capital project in the amount of approximately $9,600,000, without raising our current school tax rate.

Maintaining our project bond cycle is the key to continually and affordably improving our Districts educational environment through systematic maintenance of District infrastructure. 

In closing, a big thank you goes out to our entire community, our capital project advisory committee members, our staff members, and our Board of Education for their continued support of this project. The approval of this project will ensure that our students, staff and community will have access to a safe, energy efficient and optimal educational learning environment for many years to come.

Thank you!
Joseph A. Rotella
Superintendent of Schools