Actual Ballot Measure Text for Measure H

The Santa Barbara High School District has provided high-quality educational programs since 1866. Due to substantial state budget cuts, local schools need supplemental local tax dollars to fund programs that provide our students with the highest quality education. Measure H2008 will provide a stable, consistent, locally controlled funding source.

The $23 per year investment equals about 6¢ per day toward the education of over 10,000 students in the Santa Barbara High School District.

Measure H2008 will allow the Santa Barbara High School District to:

• Supplement math, science, and technology education;
• Enhance music, art, and theater programs at the junior school level;
• Supplement secondary foreign language courses;
• Restore ninth-grade math class sizes.

• Enhancing math, science, foreign language, and technology education programs, providing the competitive edge our students need to succeed beyond school.
• Maintaining high-quality music, arts, and theater programs which bring together students with diverse backgrounds and offer positive opportunities for at-risk youth.
• Enhancing rigorous standards-based instruction and best teaching practices for student achievement.
• Providing support to all junior and senior schools.

• Requiring that all funds be used locally to improve the Santa Barbara Elementary School District.
• Creating an independent citizen oversight committee.
• Requiring annual reporting on expenditures and annual independent financial audit.
• Requiring compliance with accountability measures as determined by law.
• Expires in four years unless reauthorized by voters.
• Senior citizens may request exemption from the measure.