NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — In a special meeting this week, the Yuba Community College District Board of Trustees will conduct a training and hold a preliminary discussion on a possible bond measure.

The special board meeting and study session will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at the Yuba College campus, 2088 N. Beale Road, Building 300-Flavors, Marysville.

The meeting also will be available via Zoom at this link. The call-in number is 1 669 900 6833; the Zoom Meeting ID is 838 8526 0070.

The agenda and meeting documents are available here.

The main items on the agenda are a “10+1” training relating to the board’s work with the Academic Senate, the primary role of which is “to make recommendations and be the
official voice of faculty on academic and professional matters,” according to the board presentation.

Also on the agenda is a preliminary bond discussion.

The report for the bond matter explains that in the fall of 2023, then-District Board President Juan Delgado, charged a board ad hoc committee that consisted of three board trustees and district administrators to evaluate the feasibility of issuing a bond measure during the 2024 presidential election.

“After careful discussions, the Ad Hoc Committee concluded that the political and economic conditions within the counties within YCCD's service areas would not support issuing a bond measure,” the report said.

The report said the ad hoc committee recommended that the district revisit the matter after the presidential election, at which point it would “initiate the work on community outreach and development, focusing on familiarizing the communities with the progress of the existing bond projects, the positive differences the colleges are making in the communities and the support that the colleges urgently need to take the colleges to the new level of services.”

Board President Richard Teagarden has appointed a board ad hoc committee to discuss the need for a potential bond. Teagarden along with trustees Dennise Burbank and John Cassidy sit on that ad hoc committee, according to the meeting documents.

The ad hoc committee held its first preliminary discussion with Chancellor Shouan Pan and President Tawny Dotson, the district reported.

The special meeting on Thursday will include a discussion with the board about the future direction of the ad hoc committee's work, as well “the necessity and feasibility of a future bond” which the report for the meeting notes is “directly related to the core mission of supporting student success when the colleges are confronted with urgent facility challenges and fast-changing information technologies.”

Previous bond measures J, approved in 2006 for $190 million, and Q from 2017, which approved $33,565,000, led to significant facility improvements throughout the eight-county district. The district reported that all of the projects from those two bonds are expected to be completed by 2026.

However, the district’s last attempt at a general bond, Measure C in March of 2020, failed, 63 to 39 percent. That bond was for $228 million.

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