The more important point is that the ASD still has too many facilities to maintain for the size of the declining student population. 

The district has added 1.2million square feet of new neighborhood elementary schools with over 250 new classrooms with FEWER students than were attending those schools in the mid 1980s. That unneeded facility growth is robbing resources from school operations that could fund 200 teaching positions. 

That said --This is a pretty reasonable bond package. Just urgent maintenance needs. No new facilities. The ASD currently has about $450 million in deferred maintenance. This bond package will not reduce the deferred maintenance backlog; it will just keep the backlog growing more slowly. 

Bottom line-- I'll support this bond package but my patience is growing very thin with the districts inability to effectively manage their over abundance of facilities