A proposed multi-million-dollar bond measure that would have funded updates at Dana Hills High School will not make it onto November’s election ballot after it failed in a split vote by the Capistrano Unified School District’s Board of Education this week.
Last month trustees voted 4 to 1—with one abstention—to continue discussion on the bond, which would allow Dana Hills voters to decide whether to levy a $34 property tax per $100,000 of assessed value to provide $171 million to fund both seismic and basic updates to Dana Hills High School.
This week, however, the bond failed in a split 3 to 3 final vote, with board president Martha McNicholas, and trustees Amy Hanacek and Krista Castellanos in favor of the bond measure, and trustees Gila Jones, Judy Bullockus, and Lisa Davis against it….