Voters ‘plant trees’ for future students with ECC bond vote
For the second time in a decade, El Camino College has won voter approval for a nearly $400 million facilities bond measure. In 2002, voters approved a $394 million bond measure. On Tuesday, by a dramatic two-to-one-margin, voters approved a $350 million bond measure. Tuesday’s vote was 95,149 in favor of the bond, labeled Measure E, and 45,075 opposed. El Camino Board President Bill Beverly called Measure E’s passage a present to future generations. “It’s like old people planting trees whose shade they won’t live long enough to enjoy. The current voters, students, faculty, board members and administration won’t be around to enjoy the new facilities. Everyone did this for the next generation,” Beverly said. “Thanks to the voters, the South Bay will have the finest community college in California,” Beverly added. “This was more satisfying than my own election to the Manhattan Beach City Council because it brought the whole South Bay together,” said two-term Mahattan Beach City Councilman Richard Montgonery, who managed the measure E campaign. “It was a sprint from the day our team first met two months ago in downtown Torrance,” he said. Montgomery credited the campaign’s success to…
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