Measure A

Dear Peralta Community College District Family,

While ballots remain to be counted, Measure A is currently receiving more than 83% voter support and is on track for approval.

I am deeply humbled and grateful for this overwhelming vote of confidence in the Peralta Community College District, our colleges, our students, and the important work each of you does every day in service to our communities.

On behalf of the District, thank you to the residents of the East Bay for once again choosing to invest in public higher education and reauthorize this critical local funding. At a time when public education faces significant uncertainty and changing federal and state landscapes, this vote sends a powerful message: our communities believe in the transformative power of affordable, accessible, and high-quality education.

This support helps ensure that we can continue to create opportunities for students, strengthen our workforce, and serve as engines of social and economic mobility throughout the East Bay.

I also want to express my gratitude to our Board of Trustees for their leadership and stewardship; to our faculty, classified professionals, administrators, and student workers whose dedication makes our mission possible every day; to our students who inspire us; and to the many community leaders, volunteers, advocates, and supporters who helped share the importance of Measure A with voters.

This outcome belongs to all of us.

The success of Measure A is not simply an investment in our colleges. It is an investment in our students, their dreams, and the future of the communities we serve. We do not take that trust lightly.

There will be time to celebrate this achievement more fully in the days ahead. For now, I simply want to say thank you. Thank you for your leadership, your service, your advocacy, and your unwavering commitment to our students.

With gratitude,

Tammeil

Tammeil Y. Gilkerson, Ed.D.

Chancellor

Peralta Community College District

*Official Measure A Ballot Question*
PERALTA COLLEGES AFFORDABLE EDUCATION REAUTHORIZATION MEASURE. To continue funding for community colleges in Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland at existing tax rates, support affordable education to prepare students for jobs/ careers and university transfer; attract/ retain high quality faculty; shall Peralta Community College District’s measure be adopted, reauthorizing the existing $48 per parcel annually for 9 years, providing $8,000,000 annually, with oversight, funds that cannot be taken by the state or used for administrator salaries, all benefitting local colleges?

YES	NO

Background

On February 10^th, the Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees unanimously agreed to place Measure A – the Peralta Colleges Affordable Education Reauthorization Measure – on the upcoming June 2^nd ballot to continue locally controlled funding that maintains high-quality, affordable education for East Bay students with no increase in local property tax rates.

The cost of U.C., Cal State, and private colleges has continued to increase in recent years. Measure A maintains the Peralta Colleges as a safety net for higher education without creating high-interest debt.

If reauthorized, Measure A funding continues to maintain programs that prepare students for jobs/careers and university transfer; maintain job retraining programs to prepare for 21st century jobs; prevent cuts to math, science, and English; and be used to attract and retain experienced faculty and educators.

All Measure A funding is subject to accountability requirements, which include monitoring by an independent Citizens’ Parcel Tax Oversight Committee and independent financial and performance audits. By law, all Measure A funds must continue to be used for our local community colleges, cannot be taken away by the State, or used for administrator salaries.

Measure A proposes reauthorizing the existing $48 per parcel tax set to expire soon, for an additional nine years, generating $8 million annually with no increase in local property tax rates.

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