By Lanz Christian Bañes

The Benicia school board will discuss Thursday the possibility of pursuing state and local bonds in order to fund millions of dollars worth of improvements.

The Benicia Unified School District’s five-year facilities assessment plan shows that the district has about $52 million worth of deferred maintenance, ranging from classrooms and laboratories that must be modernized, to sports fields and performing arts facilities that must be renovated.

The district has not had much luck in recent years in getting the public to pay more for schools. In 2010, the district’s Measure C, a parcel tax proposal, fell just shy of the 66-2/3 percent needed for passage. It received 63 percent backing.

via Benicia school board to weigh bond measure – Vallejo Times Herald.