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. . •' I ! RESOLUTION NO.' 15-84 Resolution Regarding Measure "A" : A Measure for the Preservation and Maintenance of De Anza and Foothill Colleges • WHEREAS maintaining the quality of educational resources like Foothill and De Anza Colleges is important to the.welfare of the citizens of the City of Los Altos Hills ; and WHEREAS years 'of deteriorating financial resources have prompted the Foothill-De Anza Community College District to seek special funding to preserve the standards of excellence of Foothill and De Anza Colleges; and WHEREAS, the Board-of Trustees of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District has called an election for April 10, 1984, to submit to the electors Measure A, entitled "A Measure for the Preservation and Maintenance of De Anza and Foothill Colleges," which proposes that a special tax be levied in the District; and WHEREAS the proceeds from the proposed special tax will be used - exclusively for the limited purposes of buying necessary laboratory, technical, scientific and other equipment for better transfer and job training programs, purchasing library books and repairing, maintaining, and improving college buildings; and WHEREAS the Board of Trustees of the District can reduce or repeal the tax if additional funds are found but may not under any circumstances increase the tax; and WHEREAS the tax must be returned to the voters at least every four years and may be repealed by a simple majority vote; and WHEREAS State funding proposals for community colleges and' the imposition of tuition on community college students will not meet the accumulated maintenance, repair, library acquisition and equipment needs of Foothill and De Anza Colleges; NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL RESOLVES that it endorses Measure A on the April 10, 1984 ballot and encourages voters to vote yes on Measure A.