Tired of school district ‘tugging at heart strings’


I just received the infamous Las Virgenes Unified School District survey in the mail. This is the first step to an additional property tax assessment on your property tax bill.

The biggest excuse for needing this money is lack of financial support from the State of California. The state currently has billions of dollars in unallocated reserves, which it has opted to use on various projects that provide zero benefit to anyone in our community.

The first step for every property owner who reads this is to contact your state senator and Assembly member, as well as the governor, and ask them why they can spend billions on programs that have no benefit to our community, but they can’t give a few million to our school district for the improvements they claim they need. Many of the Las Virgenes school district registered voters are not property owners. They could care less about voting “yes” because they are not paying.

LVUSD also solicits and encourages students from outside the district whose parents pay nothing related to our property taxes and special assessments.

I elected folks to the school board to fight for our students and fight for the tax payers that voted the current board of education in.

The board and superintendent should take the next plane to Sacramento, meet with our elected state officials, and have them make us a priority.

The state of California has doubled the gas tax, doubled the vehicle registration fees and increased the sales tax. Sacramento spends billions on failed programs, but they do not have a few million to make things better for our students.

LVUSD knows the tax payers in our community have big hearts and they are tugging at those heart strings as they have many times in the past. My heart is reaching the point where the strain is too much—especially when I get my monthly health insurance bill.

It is time for our board and our local politicians to find another deep pocket to pick in Sacramento instead of ours.

Gary Mason
Agoura Hill