School Board to Vote on Paying Back District for Work on Bond Measure Projects at Tonight's Meeting

With a on the Nov. 8 ballot, the wants to be able to have something to show the public before they hit the polls.

The school board at today's will be addressing that matter by voting on a resolution that would allow the district to get reimbursed for expenses associated with preliminary work for projects that could get funded by the bond measure.

Superintendent Dr. David Hutt said an example of that preliminary work could be the landscape models the district is trying to have put together to show residents how school playgrounds and fields could be transformed. Another example has been the architectural models already completed for the full refurbishment of , which is to add more classrooms and space to the school. The second phase of the $13 million project, which would complete the modernization of the campus, isn't fully funded.

The architectural designs were funded with proceeds from the sale of the Carl Sandberg site, Hutt said, and the district is hoping the bond measure would allow that money to be reimbursed.

But those funds wouldn't be going toward the district's general expenses such as teacher salaries or textbooks.

"If the community supported the G.O. (general obligation) bond, then that puts back money in that specific fund," Hutt said. "It would be facilities dollars going into facilities funds."

The school board will also be approving a response from the district about a recently released San Mateo County civil grand jury report about .

According to the report, only two of the 23 districts in the entire county—Cabrillo Unified and the San Mateo Union High School District—have a distinct bullying policy and enforcement process.

The report recommended that all school districts in the county establish and enforce a bullying policy that clearly communicates the expectations to students, staff and parents.

In a prepared statement, San Bruno Park says the district already has a harassment policy that spells out how to deal with conduct deemed bullying.

All district employees are charged with enforcing the policy, the statement says, but most of the responsibility lies with teachers and administrators at the schools.

Hutt said the district is planning on sending a representative to a mandated county meeting recommended by the grand jury to develop streamlined school policies on bullying.