Officials of the Sausalito Marin City School District will vote Wednesday on whether to place a $41.6 million bond measure on the Nov. 3 ballot.

The measure, which would go to pay for capital repairs at both of the district’s two campuses in Marin City and Sausalito, is needed to make buildings safe for children, Itoco Garcia, district superintendent, said at Monday’s three-hour meeting to discuss the final ballot language and documents.

“We can’t continue to kick the can down the road,” he said.

The vote will take place at a special online meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday.

If approved, the bond would cost residential and commercial property owners $30 per $100,000 of assessed value. The district has one of lowest bond tax rates in Marin at $16 per $100,000 of assessed value.

According to the discussion on Monday, many of the buildings on both campuses were constructed in 1980s and 1990s — and some in the 1940s. Garcia said water seeps into classroom building foundations at the Sausalito campus on Nevada Street. An employee was struck more than a year ago by a folding bench that fell off the wall at the school cafeteria.

In 2019, a consultant hired by the district indicated the Sausalito campus alone, the site of Willow Creek Academy charter school, needed $31 million in repairs and upgrades.

The Marin City campus on Phillips Drive, the site of Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy, has portable and modular classroom units that have outlived their expected lifespans, officials said.

“The longer we wait, it’s only going to get more expensive over time,” said trustee Bonnie Hough. “This is very urgent, very frightening.”

She and board president Ida Green and trustees Debra Turner and Carolyn Van Alst said they would vote in favor of placing the measure on the ballot.

“This is a way to have people feel safe in our buildings and not have to worry about the ceiling falling down,” Turner said.

Green said she understood that taxes for Marin residents “do add up,” but “so do the futures of our children. All questions need to be weighed.”

Trustee Josh Barrow, who did not attend Monday’s meeting, said he would vote no.

“We still do not have a clear unification facilities plan,” Barrow said on Tuesday. “I think we owe it to taxpayers to have a solid plan before we ask them for tens of millions of dollars.”

He also said he was uncomfortable with the timing in the middle of a pandemic, as well as other issues such as what he said was lack of coordination with other agencies, and a lack of exploring other funding sources such as tax credits or working with nonprofits.

The deadline to place a measure on the Nov. 3 ballot is Friday.