For all you supporters of Measure U: Where is the $85 million to $100 million going to come from for a brand-new, state-of-the-art high school? I'm not talking about "upgrading" Los Altos Middle School, Frontier High School, or Adolfo Camarillo High School, but a brand-new, state-of-the-art high school. Get the picture?
If it's about the kids -- and it is about the kids -- then were does the $85 million to $100 million come from?
It's a simple question with a simple answer. A new Camarillo Unified School District will have to get us, the voters, to approve a bond measure to raise our taxes. So stop saying taxes will not go up! Our taxes will go up, because our kids deserve a brand-new, state-of-the-art high school.
Vote no on Measure U and let Oxnard Union High School District get on with the business of building the brand-new, state-of-the-art high school Camarillo deserves!
-- Martin C. Nehring, Somis
(The writer is a member of the ACHS Class of 1977. -- Editor)