Measure I School Bond Passes In Pleasanton With 57% Support

PLEASANTON, CA — Measure I, a $395 million bond requiring an estimated property tax levy of $49 per $100,000 in assessed value, has passed with 57.18% Yes votes, according to the final major tally update released Monday. “No” captured 42.82% of the vote.

"We are both extremely grateful and humbled by these results,” Bill Butler, co-chair of the Yes On I campaign, told Pleasanton Weekly. “We want to express our heartfelt thanks to the voters, our volunteers and the team we were able to assemble to advocate on behalf of the 'Yes on I' campaign. It was an honor of a lifetime to be aligned in supporting our teachers and students here in Pleasanton."

"Congratulations to those voting Yes. We will now be watching carefully how this tremendous amount of money is spent,” Kathleen Ruegsegger, a former PUSD trustee associated with the “No On I” campaign, told the Weekly.

The bond will help fund the first tier phase of PUSD’s 2022 Facilities Master Plan, which includes gym and theater construction at Amador Valley and Foothill high schools, and new classrooms at Vintage Hills Elementary School. It is the second general election bond put before voters in two years: in March 2020, Measure M, a $323 million bond to upgrade classrooms and facilities and improve disability access, received 52.4% of the vote, just shy of the just shy of the necessary 55 percent.

The bond started off with 52.79% support on Election Night, and its totals climbed each with each successive release. By Tuesday night, it had reached 54.94%, just .06% shy of the threshold.

The county will continue to release results over the next few days, indicating a potentially stronger finish for the measure.

Next door in Livermore, Measure G, a $450 million bond requiring an estimated property tax of $60 per $100,000 in assessed value, looks unlikely to pass. Though ‘Yes’ votes have climbed slightly ahead of ‘No’ votes (50.11-49.89%, a difference of 73 votes), it is still below the 55% threshold it needs to pass.

In other election news, Jeff Nibert and Julie Testa continue to lead in the City Council race (61.26% and 42.94%, respectively), and Laurie Walker continues to lead the race to represent PUSD’s Area 2, with 57.89% of the vote.