United Parents Of Culver City to File Petition to Improve School Infrastructures

A petition started by The United Parents of Culver City is urging the Culver City Unified School Board to give voters the right to vote on a school facilities bond during the November elections.

The online petition contains more than 500 signatures, according to a press release from the group.

“By delivering the petition to the school board, UPCC is showing that there is a large group of people who believe that our students deserve classrooms and buildings that are not falling apart,” stated UPCC President Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin. “They support a facilities bond which would provide needed funds to make these necessary improvements.”

The group said the petition is in response to Board Member Karlo Silbliger’s halting of much needed repair and modernization of CCUSD’s facilities despite input from a needs assessment conducted by an infrastructure business service, Balfour Beatty. Repairs would cost an estimated $165 million to address all of the concerns listed in the assessment, according to the group.

The UPCC has also organized a “Let The Voters Decide Bond Committee” comprised of community leaders who are also urging the school board to leave the decision up to the residents of Culver City.

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