School board members hired a Social Media guru with taxpayer funds to help pass the district's $59M Measure S bond. 

The Facility Planning Advisory Committee members (2013 -2014) were given very limited information regarding HBCSD facilities, issues, and options. They were also given demographic projections that were later found to be substantially incorrect.

HBCSD School Board members hired an “expert” on school design based in San Jose, CA to advise the FPAC members during the 2013 facility meetings. The district's "expert" had a legal complaint against him in San Diego county.   Paul Bunton seemed to have skewed his information to support demolishing and rebuilding North School.

HBCSD's hired “expert” estimated only a $4 million dollar difference between renovating ($10.9M) and rebuilding ($14.9M) North School. The truth was rebuilding North School would cost almost 3x ($29M) the cost of renovation and take two years longer than the district's "expert" estimated.

HBCSD paid their hired "expert" tasked with advising the Facility Planning Advisory Committee members, $7,400 for attending two meetings and providing an estimate to demolish and rebuild North School that was completely off reality.  

HBCSD's hired “expert” apparently left off the kitchen and multipurpose room from his tour of North School that he took the Facilities Planning Advisory Committee (FPAC) members on in March 2013.

Several Facility Planning Advisory Committee members (2013 to 2014) were unhappy with how the FPAC process worked.

HBCSD withheld up to 25.5% of the district revenues from being spent on school items (students, teachers, staff, educational materials, maintenance) in 2015.

HBCSD reserve account fell to a low of 2.9% at June 2005 during the building of the new construction at Valley School. The CDE requires that HBCSD hold 3% in reserves.  By 2015 HBCSD reserves were 25.5%.  HBCSD increased their reserves by withholding spending on student's education and campus upkeep.

Most people in Hermosa Beach wanted classrooms to be given priority over building a gymnasium in 2002 when HBCSD passed their $13.9M Measure J bond.

School Board members were told by consultants that the gymnasium was not supported by taxpayers and should be left off the bond.  Thereafter, the district's highest priority item, the gymnasium, was NOT listed on the bond description when it went to the voters in 2002.

The cost and issues surrounding the new construction (gymnasium, changing rooms, library, and two science classrooms with a dedicated elevator) at Valley School:

Issues regarding HBCSD's Environmental Impact Report for North School reconstruction.

There were significant Issues with the Place Works Environmental Impact Report for the reconstruction of North School.

Who donated to the School District's bond campaigns?

There was seamless communication between the Yes on S campaign and the school district giving Yes on S an unfair advantage with prior knowlege and in coordinating events with HBCSD to pass their $59M bond.

The District's Measure S ballot description given to voters does NOT state that the entire North School campus (aka Vista School) will be demolished and rebuilt.   

Taxpayers paid to completely rebuild North School (aka Vista School) to hold 510 students at a cost of $29M.  However, HBCSD would use the brand new $29M campus to hold only an average of 280 3rd and 4th graders per year.  HBCSD could have renovated North School for 1/3 the cost and much less time, versus building new, to hold 280 3rd and 4th graders.   

HBCSD Superintendent, Pat Escalante and former School Board member Cathy McCurdy denied the district's use of portions of Valley Park to build a large parking lot, while also conniving behind the scenes to aquire land in Valley Park from the City so that a parking lot could be built for a new North School campus.