Hai Ho for the Burbank Unified School District governing board

Hai Ho is an aerospace engineer, a husband and father, a long-time Burbank resident, and a candidate for the Burbank Unified School District governing board in Trustee Area 3.

Hai Ho is a candidate for the Burbank Unified School District governing board in Trustee Area 3, the area he lives in. His family came to this country as refugees from Vietnam, and Burbank is where they built everything afterwards. He has lived in the city for most of his life, and is a devoted husband and a proud father; his children grew up in these schools and his grandchildren are growing up here now.

He spent his working life as an aerospace engineer. He is standing on new revenue for the district without new taxes, a budget made to go further, and Burbank’s fair share of state funding.

Hai Ho is a candidate for the Burbank Unified School District governing board in Trustee Area 3, the area in which he lives.

His family came to the United States as refugees from Vietnam. What they had when they arrived was each other and whatever a public school and a day’s work could be turned into; Burbank is where they turned it into something. He has lived in this city for most of his life. He is a devoted husband and a proud father — the part of his own story he puts first — and his children and grandchildren have been raised here.

His working life was spent as an aerospace engineer, a discipline he describes as reading the drawings, measuring what a thing is actually doing, and fixing what the measurements point to rather than what anybody wishes were true.

He is standing on three immediate priorities: a working group to find new revenue for the district without new taxes, including expanding Burbank’s Farmers Market; a line-by-line budget review targeting at least 10 percent greater efficiency through current technology, with no layoffs; and a survey of the families who have left Burbank Unified for neighboring districts, and a plan to win them back. Longer term he wants Burbank’s case on the Local Control Funding Formula put to Sacramento directly.