March 24, 2000

California 2-Year Colleges Disappointed by Votes on 2 Ballot Measures

By PATRICK HEALY

California voters this month defeated a proposed constitutional amendment that would have made it easier for community colleges to issue bonds for construction needs, which campus officials say total $8-billion. Voters backed a ballot measure that earmarks millions of dollars for textbooks and software at two-year colleges.

College leaders had hoped that both votes would go the other way.

The amendment, Proposition 26, which received 48.8 percent of the

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