South San Francisco's School Board will vote today whether to support a petition to change school district boundaries to allow San Bruno to have jurisdiction over property on Merimont Cir. near Monte Verde Park.
The vote in the midst of a long-standing dispute over property within San Bruno that is also part of the South City Unified School District.
The San Mateo Daily Journal reports Thursday that in August, residents of the Merimont subdivison in San Bruno petitioned the San Mateo County superintendent the change school district boundaries since property tax money goes to the South City school district.
The Journal reports that: "When the issue originally came up, San Bruno Park officials said that when the county maps were changed in regards to the city limits, the district changes were overlooked. South San Francisco Unified, on the other hand, maintained that the district lines were never meant to be changed."
According to the SSFUSD board agenda for Thursday evening, staff recommends that the board oppose the petition so that the district can maintain jurisdiction over the area.
Do you live in or near the disputed area? Do you think school district boundaries should be changed? Tell us in the comments below.
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Problem with Merimont is that everyone thought it was in SBPSD because the school was there. Since it is a new group of houses, neither District has any real "history" behind making it go one way or the other. I'd say let the homeowners there vote on it and live with the result. Funny though, when the project was being built, the City of SSF was against there being any access to SSF from the north side, They didn't want the traffic!
When Sandburg was a school, everyone assumed it was in the San Bruno Park School boundaries. It didn't matter, because there were no homes there. When it was developed, it turned out that it was in the SSF school boundaries. There is a process for changing boundaries in cases like this. That's what these homeowners are trying to do.
There is no fiscal impact to SSFUSD from what we are now understanding. The tax money that SSFUSD is receiving will remain that way even if the boundaries get changed. This was recently discovered at the last meeting with the board in Redwood city. Not sure if SSFUSD is aware of the info as it was just discovered. When we all bought houses here we were told and shown documents that prove we were part of the San Bruno Park / San Mateo district. Then someone decided to take our tax money and give it to SSFUSD with out any explanation or notice. We have a very strong sense of community and are very passionate about this issue. We will plead our case and see where it goes!
There are many more stories in our neighborhood that are similar. Thanks for support though.
San Bruno Park/San Mateo Union High School Districts Tuesday, November 27th 7:00 PM Rollingwood Elementary School 2500 Cottonwood Drive San Bruno South San Francisco Unified School District Thursday, December 6th 7:00 PM South San Francisco Unified District Board Room 398 B Street South San Francisco Thank you!! We love San Bruno