Fresno Unified Trustees Approve SEDA Opposition After Heated Public Comment
Trustees said the 9,000-acre plan could close up to 11 schools and drain $200 million a year from district funding.
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Fresno Unified Trustees Approve SEDA Opposition After Heated Public Comment
The Fresno Unified School Board appeared poised to once again table a formal opposition to the city of Fresno’s Southeast Development Area plan until trustees’ thinking was seemingly shifted by lengthy public comment. “I’m just blown away. … I really don’t know why again we’re putting it off,” community activist Gloria Hernandez told the board. “We voted for you to represent the students at Fresno Unified and by delaying this issue or taking a n…
Fresno Unified votes to oppose SEDA, the southeast mega-plan
Fresno Unified broke ranks with Mayor Jerry Dyer on Wednesday night, voting 4-0 to formally oppose his bid to build a new Clovis on the city’s southeast fringe — and handing the citywide coalition fighting his 9,000-acre Southeast Development Area (SEDA) its most institutionally significant ally yet. FUSD’s resolution to oppose SEDA passed 4-0, with trustees Susan Wittrup and Elizabeth Jonasson Rosas abstaining and Claudia Cazares recusing herse…
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