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  • Basketball charity: Citrus Heights police to face Spartans, Mavs

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    A team of Citrus Heights police officers will be out in force on June 13, but they’ll be dropping the bullet-proof vests and donning basketball uniforms as they face off two local high school teams for a charity event in the San Juan High School gym.

    “Come show your support for Citrus Heights’ superstar student-athletes!” a flier for the 2nd annual Charity Basketball Extravaganza reads, inviting the community to “rally together for a common benefit.”

    Food will be catered by Wild Wade’s BBQ & Grill for the Saturday event, with officers from the Citrus Heights Police Athletic League playing against the San Juan Spartans and Mesa Verde Mavericks.

    The charity event is also scheduled to feature a half-time police K-9 Unit demo, along with performances from Mesa Verde and San Juan high schools’ dance teams, and the Citrus Heights Police Activities League Dance Team. The event will also feature raffles, various competitions, and a ‘Slam Domestic Violence’ 3-point shootout.

    The “extravaganza” is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. on June 13 in the San Juan High School Large Gym, located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights.

    [Also on The Sentinel: Citrus Heights’ 2015 Red, White & Blue Parade seeks entries]

    Tickets are available for $5 and can be purchased in advance by calling Mesa Verde High School at (916) 971-5288, or San Juan High School at (916) 971-5112. Donations are tax-deductible and will go towards local youth groups and charities, and children under 9 can attend for free, according to the event flier.

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  • Citrus Heights RadioShack closes after company files for bankruptcy

    Lights were off, shelves were empty and phone rang unanswered this week, as the RadioShack on Greenback Lane officially closed its doors for the final time — the result of bankruptcy terms the corporation filed in court February 5.

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    Signs announcing the store’s imminent closure were seen on the Citrus Heights RadioShack’s windows several days before doors were finally shut.

    Prior to closing, the Citrus Heights location had been operating as a limited-stock “clearance center” since January 3, with signs advertising 25 to 50 percent off on items. After the corporation’s bankruptcy filings earlier this month, those signs were replaced with deeper discounts and a “last days” countdown on the front window.

    The Citrus Heights RadioShack store had been open since 1978, according to the store manager.

    Future use of the 7405 Greenback Lane location is unknown, although the company’s largest shareholder, Standard General, has announced plans to purchase about half of RadioShack’s 4,000 company-owned stores and turn them into store-within-a-store Sprint locations.

    Monica Alejandrez, assistant to the city manager, said the City had not been notified of “any intentions of turning that location into a Sprint store,” and noted a “sizeable” Sprint store already located across the street in the Safeway complex.

    [Related: 99 Cents Only Stores plan to open new store on Greenback Lane]

    Nearby Orchard Supply Hardware also suffered the same fate as RadioShack, with it’s large lot at Greenback Lane and San Juan Avenue to be taken up by Crunch gym and a 99 Cents Only store later this year.

  • Elections Office: nearly 20,000 ballots still to be counted

    Elections Office: nearly 20,000 ballots still to be counted

    Updated Nov. 12, 10:16 p.m.–
    Following a close race, or just want to know which ballots are left to be counted?

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    Minutes after polls closed, workers at a Citrus Heights precinct count up still-sealed vote-by-mail ballots dropped off on election day.

    The Sacramento County Registrar of Voters office estimates it still has around 19,000 unprocessed vote-by-mail and provisional ballots left to count — with additional votes possibly swinging the final outcome for close races like San Juan Unified School District’s board election, where Michael McKibbin currently holds less than a one percent lead over Michael Miller.

    Understanding the vote-count process:

    Numbers released on election night are part of what’s called a “semifinal official canvass,” and include only “tallying of early-returned vote-by-mail ballots,” as well as any ballots cast in-person at a voting precinct, according to the California Secretary of State’s (SOS) website. Legally, officials can begin counting early-returned ballots seven days prior to the election.

    Following this initial canvass, an “official canvass” must be completed within 28 days of the close of the election, during which election officials will process and count provisional ballots cast on election day, as well as any valid vote-by-mail ballots that were received on election day — or ones received prior to election day, but not counted in time to be included in the initial canvass.

    The numbers of additional ballots counted after election night can be significant, as one precinct in Citrus Heights reported 201 ballots cast in-person at the polls on November 4, and 107 vote-by-mail ballots dropped off.

    Statewide, ballots not included in the semifinal election-night results can be as many as 500,000 to 1,000,000, according to the SOS website.

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    More information about the vote-counting process in California can be found out: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/official-canvass.htm

  • TUES NIGHT: Sup’t to recommend school board close, move Sylvan

    Superintendent Kent Kern Tuesday night will recommend San Juan Unified School District board members approve a controversial proposal to shift Citrus Heights Elementary students to Carriage Drive Elementary, and move Sylvan Middle School students over to an $18.2 million modernized Citrus Heights Elementary campus, saying it’s a cost-efficient way to handle problems with Sylvan’s deteriorating building and declining enrollment.

    schools_sylvanmiddleschoolRejecting a popular proposal from vocal parents who advocate rebuilding the 76-year-old Sylvan school, Kern’s closure-and-consolidation recommendation would cost $10-20 million less than the $44 million estimated to rebuild the school — or the $30.8 million now estimated to “fix” it, according to recommendation documents included in the Board’s October 28 agenda packet.

    Kern’s closure recommendation also highlights declining enrollment figures which show Citrus Heights schools are only utilizing 63 percent of their enrollment capacity, indicating while 2016-17 projected K-8 enrollment is 5,085 students, there’s unused capacity for over 3,000 more pupils.

    Upset parents have vowed to show up in numbers at Tuesday’s meeting, as they did at a September 25 forum last month, pushing for a “state-of-the-art” rebuilt Sylvan, or at least a one-year delay on a final decision to allow more time to consider funding options and other alternatives. They have also brought the matter up during public comment at several recent city council meetings, emphasizing their desire for closeby “neighborhood schools” and citing concerns about displacing students — particularly those with special needs.

    According to Kern’s recommendation documents,  staff “considered and investigated” potentially delaying a decision, but rejected the idea “after speaking with members of city council as well as the city planning department, and considering the other impacts.”

    Vice Mayor Sue Frost wrote in a recent newsletter that “schools are not under the purview of the city council,” but said she wrote a letter to the SJUSD Board regarding the matter.

    “In my letter to the School Board, I have supported the parents in their effort to save Sylvan Middle School if at all possible, and if not, I have request[ed] that the Board please make the transition as easy on students and parents as possible,” the vice mayor said in her October 27 newsletter. She also said several council members will be present at Tuesday’s Board meeting.

    Although the Board will hear the matter Tuesday night, a final vote is expected at its November 18 meeting.

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    View the full recommendation documents in the October 28 board agenda packet here:
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    San Juan Unified School District
    Board of Education meeting
    October 28, 2014
    6:30 p.m.
    3738 Walnut Avenue
    Carmichael, CA

  • San Juan Seeks Input on Choosing New Superintendent

    Community input on selecting a replacement for the top administrative position is being sought by San Juan Unified Board of Education, following the removal of Superintendent Glynn Thompson. Deadline to submit input is March 3.

    The Board has specified that input is not limited to students and parents, and invites all members of the community to submit their feedback.Your input sought - San Juan Unified School District

    The input form, along with additional information can be viewed at the

    District’s website.