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M Public Education 1. Public School Construction and Community College Funding — Support legislation to provide state assistance to meet public school and community college construction needs caused by increased enrollment, mandated reduction in class size, and other factors through a statewide referendum on a bond issue and/or through authority for counties to raise additional revenues to meet facility needs, and to fund expansion budget requests of the community college system to meet demands resulting from increased enrollment and to train and retrain workers responding to a changing economy. (See also Item #4 of Orange County's Legislative Matters Resolution) 2. Education Current Expense Funding — Support legislation to assure that the state define and support an adequate basic education in all local school systems and appropriate adequate operating funds to fully fund its education initiatives with revenue that is earmarked to pay the costs of those initiatives. The state should fund programs that continue to engage young people, provide individualized options that eliminate arbitrary barriers and provide students a range of opportunities through which they can gain the credentials, skills and education they need to function in the modern economy of the 21 st century. Specifically, the state should: • continue to fully fund the Low Wealth School Fund; and • appropriate funds for school resource officers on the basis of one position allotment for each middle school and high school building for all school systems across the state; • appropriate funds for career technical (vocational) education in high schools. 3. Public School Capital Building Fund — Support legislation to assure that the Public School Capital Building Fund remains intact and to direct the State Treasurer to report on longterm commitments that are dependent on this fund. Counties and schools should not be deprived of these resources as they were deprived of state support for school utility costs in 1991 -92. 4. Community College Governance — Support legislation to review the process through which members of the various boards of trustees of the several community colleges are appointed to determine whether the system provides for adequate representation from counties responsible for supporting multi - county campuses. 5. Sales Tax Refunds — Support legislation to allow public schools systems to regain access to sales tax refunds. (See also Item #3 of Orange County's Legislative Matters Resolution)