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Seeking to tax already overtaxed Paso Robles area residents

May 30, 2026

Dorian Baker

OPINION by DORIAN BAKER

Against the backdrop of overwhelming community opposition, the the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District Board of Trustees voted 5-1 to place a new $205 million dollar general obligation bond onto the backs of the astonishingly over taxed residents of the community.

The trustees are representing the wishes and whims of the administration while disrespecting the community who struggles to afford to live here. They raise the cost of housing at every opportunity from developer fees to bonds as they plot to stick their hands ever deeper into your pockets.

As if to prove their extraordinary arrogance, they even gave the management another pay raise last night!

These are the same people who put tampon dispensers in the boys restrooms.

Do you really trust them to make better decisions with the approximately $14,000 each adult resident will pay over the life of the bond? Don’t be fooled by the language in the bond that says they “may” use the money for shiny new career technician education buildings and gyms. The word “may” means optional.

Vote no.

Thank you to Kenney Enney for being the only one to vote against the bond.

Dorian Baker is a former Paso Robles School Board Trustee and retired PRJUSD teacher.

 


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9 Comments

Until there is a Full and Verified accounting of how every current penny is spent and made public, I say no more money.


3

Demonrats just doing what rats do… why is everyone so surprised? Stop voting for the tribe and watch how things change for the better.


15

What do you expect when administration size increases 60, 70, 80% when students size remains stagnant at best, possibly even decreasing, someone has to pay for the bloated bueracracy.


27

California needs a school district. A SPECIAL school district. A school district willing to close the existing infrastructure and start over. From the bottom to the top. This constant need for more bond money is a scam and ultimately does not provide a better education for ‘the children’. It does, however, make overpaid bureaucrats happy. Break it up, start over.


22

The entire board needs to be recalled. They never do anything that isn’t in their own personal interests.


28

Isn’t enrollment dropping? Aren’t younger people finding it hard to afford to raise a family around here? This is probably backfilling and backstopping salaries and pensions. The proposed projects are probably just window dressing.

200 million? Another credit card they’ll never pay off.


32

If governments would stop throwing our money away on ridiculous nonsense they wouldn’t need more… tell them no… hell no… no more money….


49

More tax be bad. Vote.


37

I live just outside the Paso Robles School District boundary but this additional tax on residents is ridiculous. Many of our lifelong long and long time residents are now retired senior citizens. They are already being over taxed in every way possible and most are on fixed retire incomes. When you see people in their 80’s and 90’s going back to work at WalMart just to survive you know our society has a problem. I hope this bond does not survive. Paso residents, vote this board OUT!


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