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5-16-04 Questions in no particular order
Which school site does not have an indoor area for the students to eat?
Which school site pays over $200,000 to rent modular buildings when they have vacant modular buildings throughout the school site system?
Which school site has no trees, grass and nearly no landscaping?
Which school site has no library?
Which school site has a virtually unusable gymnasium made out of pipe and canvas?
Which school site is located less than the legal limit from the freeway and has no sound wall and is constantly polluted by freeway exhaust fumes?
Which school site totally violates the Acton Standards District?
Which school’s test scores are abominable compared to the rest of the district?
Which school site has most of its site in a designated flood way and flood plain?
Which school site has a site which was carved out to give others the usable land and the school site the floodable areas?
Which school site has such a small site, that a high school large enough to accommodate the existing population ( if the parents choose to place their children in the school), cannot be built?
Which school site has had 3 bonds that would have built a permanent school site at that site overwhelmingly rejected by the community?
Which school site is so small that when a permanent school is built the existing temporary structures:
have to be moved to the playing fields and their pads and wiring demolished and scrapped,
Playing fields must be destroyed and regraded
New concrete pads and wiring installed and modulars moved to the new pads on the old fields,
then moved again after the permanent school is built
All the new pads removed and the playing fields rebuilt
All at a waste approaching $2 million for absolutely nothing! All this after several million dollars had been spent setting up the modular structures in the first place.
Which school site has parents buying condos in Santa Clarita to avoid sending their kids to that site?
Which school site wastes hundreds of thousands of dollars on inter-district sports programs?
Which school site principal publicly stated that if students take time off for 4-H and other animal showings at the AV Fair that they would get unexcused absences on their permanent transcripts, but grants excused absences for his obscene inter-district sports program participants?
The answer is the Red Rover site, which is the real surplus property!
A. The immediate movement of the high school students to the High Desert Campus renaming it Vasquez High School, the reconfiguration of Meadowlark and Acton schools as an integrated K-8 school.
B. Returning all of the high priced rentals immediately, and those savings should be held in an account to cover moving costs and the balance of the saving held to build a permanent high school.
The Red Rover site is inadequate. It needs the entire 145 acres that was originally purchased by Dusick’s patron with the nearly unusable portions traded for Wallace Canyon. The record indicates the property was bought for $300,000 and because of the floodway restrictions and lack of water on the remaining property, should be purchasable for a similar amount. Note that this is a tiny fraction of the $2 million that will be spent moving portables around Vasquez.
The voters didn’t reject a permanent high school, they rejected the crazed plan to build an inadequate school on an inadequate site, based on a plan that continues the financial malfeasance that Dusick and Bandaras practiced.
We want a better high school, large enough for the community’s needs and conformed to the Acton Standards District. Strip mall high is not acceptable.
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