District: Vista Unified has spent about half its bond money
By: ROB O'DELL
March 12, 2005
North County Times
VISTA ---- The Vista Unified School District has spent about half of the money it raised three years ago through a $140 million construction bond, but enough cash remains to build a controversial high school campus near Highway 76, officials said last week.
The $140 million bond, dubbed Proposition O, was to be teamed with $104 million from the state, giving the district $244 million to build nine campuses, renovate 10 aging schools and make physical improvements to the district's other 14 schools...
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This article is a bit incomplete because it does not tell us that these are not “permanent structures.” The voters approved permanent structures not trailers 244 Million dollars should have been more than enough for permanent structures.
Most of these schools are nothing more than leaky trailers that look like jails or concentration camps. The only permanent structure is at Guajome Park Academy and some school administrative offices.
Mike Vail kept telling reporters that the cost of construction and materials had doubled and tripled what construction? What materials? Relocating a bunch of manufactured trailers cannot be counted as, “construction.”
I personally would like to know why they all jumped ship after the money was gone? Did Vail, Cowles and Hubbard get a cut of the dough? How about their contractor Buddies and Bond Oversight Committee Members? Wouldn’t these “contractors” know how to build a school? When these folks were pushing for the Prop. O Bond their construction buddies kept telling the voters they would personally oversee the construction of the schools because they were the experts. They promised to keep an eye on the money and be accountable to the taxpayers.
They sure kept their eyes on the money but not in the way the voters approved.
The money is gone and unaccounted for; VUSD did not need a school bond to buy cheap trailers. They needed a school bond to rip off the taxpayers out of millions and millions of their hard earned dollars.
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