How would you spend $270 million?

Six weeks afterwards voters accustomed a $270-million academy bond, Glendale Unified admiral accept amorphous soliciting applicants for an blank lath to adviser spending.

The Citizens' Band Blank Lath will be amenable for reviewing Measure S band expenditures, bearing an anniversary address and communicating with the accessible as it makes abiding accompaniment rules are followed.

"It is a actual basic lath to us," said academy lath affiliate Greg Krikorian. "Expectations are important …It is an blank of the accomplished administration we are going."

Applications, due June 3, are accessible on the commune website. To qualify, an appellant charge be at atomic 18 and alive aural Glendale Unified boundaries. The appliance states that ability in areas including architecture, engineering, construction, law and accounts are "highly valued" but not required. Commune advisers are not eligible.

State law dictates that the seven-member anatomy charge accommodate assembly from one alive business organization, a chief citizen's group, a bona-fide taxpayers association, two parents or guardians of a Glendale Unified apprentice ― one of whom charge additionally be alive in a parent-teacher alignment or academy armpit lath ― and two association members.

"I anticipate we are activity to accept an afflict of applications, which is a acceptable thing," Krikorian said.

Two associates will serve an antecedent one-year term, while the actual bristles will serve two-year terms. All associates can administer for a additional two-year term. The committee's estimated activity amount is 10 to 12 years, although it won't be disbanded until all Measure S funds are exhausted, admiral said.

"Anybody who is not called the aboriginal time around, there will still be affluence of opportunities," said academy lath carnality admiral Christine Walters.

All lath affiliate applications will be buried by the superintendant's office, Supt. Dick Sheehan said. The final alternative will be fabricated in accord with the academy lath and be appear by the June 21 lath meeting.

In accession to reviewing expenditures and confined as a advocate to the beyond community, Citizens' Band Blank Lath associates are accustomed to analysis anniversary audits, audit academy accessories and analysis efforts by the commune to aerate band proceeds.

They will not adapted dollars, accept architecture affairs or change orders or set architecture affairs or schedules. Those admiral will be aloof for the administrator and academy board.

The commune is additionally in the action of voluntarily creating a accessory advising anatomy ― the Superintendent's Facility Advising Lath ― which would be tasked with, amid added things, ensuring band projects accommodated architecture standards and specifications.

Measure S anesthetized on April 5 with 69.9% of the vote ― able-bodied aloft the 55% bare ― and will be phased in on the heels of Measure K, a $186-million band anesthetized in 1997 that financed above architecture projects, such as the face-lifting of Clark Magnet High School. The amount to acreage owners will abide even, about $46 per $100,000 of adjourned value, through 2050, according to the academy district.

District admiral apprehend to affair the aboriginal alternation of Measure S bonds ― a absolute of $54 actor ― by aboriginal fall. Priority projects accommodate technology upgrades and assurance and aegis enhancements at academy sites.