Fixing what's broken. Watching every dollar.
I've gotten this question directly from Glendora families, so here's a straight answer: I support Measure G. 

 

Here's exactly why, and what I'll actually do about it if I'm elected.

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What's actually broken

Walk through some of our schools, and you'll find classrooms and labs pushing 70 years old. Underground, the pipes are old enough that they're starting to fail outright: gas leaks, water leaks, sewage backups. Heating and cooling units are nearing 60 years old. This isn't a hypothetical; it's already happening.

 

What Measure G does

Measure G extends the tax rate Glendora voters already approved back in 2000 —the rate families are already paying— and is projected to keep that rate flat, not raise it. In exchange, it unlocks $86 million to fix what's broken: roofs, plumbing, electrical systems, outdated labs and classrooms, and safety upgrades like fencing, locks, and fire systems.

It also does something time-sensitive: it qualifies Glendora for $50 million in state matching funds tied to this measure. If Glendora doesn't act, that money goes to another district instead.

What it isn't: a new tax, or a blank check. By law, none of it can go to administrator or teacher salaries or general operating costs. It's restricted to facilities, full stop.

 

Where I stand

Yes, plainly. Glendora's kids deserve classrooms and labs that work, not ones held together by deferred maintenance.

I'll put it the way I'd put it to any Glendora family: when something's broken, and you're deciding how to fix it, you look at every real path to get there and ask which one actually solves the problem without costing you more than it has to. I've done that kind of thinking my whole career. Every honest alternative to Measure G — waiting, patching things year to year out of the general fund, walking away from state matching money we'll never see again — costs this town more, not less, for the same problem still sitting there unsolved. 

Voters get to decide this in November, and that's how it should work. I think the case for "yes" is a strong one.

 

Where I'll focus if I'm elected

Voting to put a bond in front of voters is the easy part, and it's already done. The part that actually matters starts after it passes.

 

Measure G already requires:

• An independent citizens' oversight committee, seated within 60 days of the election results

• Annual independent performance audits, to confirm funds are spent only on what voters were told

• Annual independent financial audits

• A public report to the Board every year on what's been collected and spent

 

Those aren't promises I'm making, they're already written into the measure. My job as a trustee is making sure they're not just a formality. That means the oversight committee actually functions, its findings are genuinely public and easy for a Glendora parent to find, and the project list voters were shown is the project list that gets built.

 

The bottom line

My job on the Board is the same whether this measure passes or fails: stewarding your kids' education and this community's tax dollars toward Glendora schools that work. Fixing what's broken so kids can learn in classrooms that function isn't a partisan project; it's basic stewardship, the same discipline I'd bring to every dollar this district spends, whether it comes from a bond or the general fund.

Glendora families have trusted this district with their tax dollars before. My job is making sure that trust is earned again, in daylight, with real numbers families can check for themselves.