Measure C
Expand and Enhance Coalinga College’s vocational and career technical education facilities
Modernizing Vocational Education
Expanding career and technical education programs to prepare students for careers in highly technical fields.
Classroom Renovations
Updating or replacing outdated facilities with relevant classrooms and labs.
Enhacing Security Measures
Updating security systems, cameras and lighting for a safer campus.
Advancing Career Training and Certifications Programs
Renovating facilities such as Welding, Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning, Heavy Equipment and Agricultural Science Programs.
Attracting and Retaining Students
Improving facilities, programs and student housing to increase enrollment.
What is Measure C?
Coalinga College is our region’s most important source of job training. Continuing to offer our residents access to quality education, job training facilities, and improved college classrooms is critical to the future economic health of our area.
Measure C allows the Coalinga College to keep pace with today’s rapidly changing educational and job training technology. Measure C funds can only be spent in our community and cannot be taken by the state and spent elsewhere.
- Guaranteed Local Investment: By law, Measure C funds cannot be taken by the state and must be spent on Coalinga College.
- Transparency and Accountability: Full public disclosure of spending, independent citizen oversight and annual audits ensure responsible use of funds.
- Funding Only for College Projects: Funds cannot be used for administrators’ salaries, pensions or benefits.
- State Matching Funds: Measure C qualifies Coalinga College for additional state matching funds.
Frequently Asked Questions
"To improve Coalinga College with funds that cannot be taken by the State and spent elsewhere, shall West Hills Community College District’s measure to expand career training/technical educational classrooms and facilities; renovate outdated classrooms, labs, and student dorms; and improve campus safety be adopted, authorizing $19 million of bonds with estimated average levies below $24 per $100,000 of assessed valuation (approximately $1 million annually) while outstanding, with legal rates, audits, independent oversight and full public disclosure of all spending?"
Measure C’s average annual tax rate is estimated to be less than $24 per $100,000 of assessed value while bonds are outstanding, which is projected to be 32 years. Assessed value should not be confused with market value. The assessed value is the value placed on the property by Fresno, Madera or San Benito County, and is typically lower than market value.
Measure C requires that an independent citizens’ oversight committee review and report on all bond expenditures, and that all bond expenditures are annually audited by an independent auditor. Measure C includes a specific list of projects that bond funds may be spent on. Laws prohibit funds from being used for administrators’ salaries, pensions, or benefits. Laws also prohibit the state from taking Measure C funds to spend in other districts.
- Measure C Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee Bylaws (Pending)
