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Special Board meeting | School Horror Story | Doctor Dies in Canyon Country Jet Crash
Come to the Special School Board meeting Monday at 6:30pm at Meadowlark School.
The trash school board is going to vote to spend another 30,000 to 60,000 dollars to place another vote for the twice failed bond on the March Ballot.
This time it's different because they threaten to close three schools and increase class sizes to 40 or more per classroom.
This board wasted nearly 10 Million dollars on Trailer Trash High School. They are paying over 60,000 each year (Over 10 years that's 600,000) for a "gym" that is virtually unusable.
The goal is to force a bond on the community and when the new school is built in 3 to 4 years, turn in the portables and save the rent.
In their adopted budget of 2003-2004 they show the portables rental total due of 246,023, paid at 68,202 per year for six years. (Note that is 409,212 total. It is unknown where difference of 163,189 goes). These payments end on 7-1-09 even if the bond passed. which is about as soon as a new school can be built so this augment is another lie.
If they close three schools why do they need a bond to rebuild the closed high school?
Are we they going to convert bond money to cover union raises and expenses instead of building the school as the law requires?
And why is the enrolment declining? Its the parents placing their kids in alternative education programs because of the declining standards and test scores.
The School Board at its 11-13-03 meeting indicated that as a result of the 2nd loss of the bond election they are considering a consolidation to save operating funds.
This is bizarre, as the bond proposal clearly stated that 100% of the proceeds were to build new buildings at the High School.
Now they are claiming they must reduce expenses as they do not have funds to pay them without using bond funds.
Here are some quotes from the 11-8-03 Daily News story:
"We don't have any faith in the school district," said opponent Charles Brink, 63, of Acton. "If we have a good school district and they care about the kids, we'll be right there. But until these people get into the community, they're not going to get one penny from us."
However, Banderas said the district is financially sound, despite past mismanagement. "I rescued them from the brink of bankruptcy," he said "We've been able to maintain the 3 percent reserve required by the state without playing games."
If Banderas' statement is true, why now after the bonds second loss do they have to consolidate?
The Rumored consolidation plan
Despite repeated requests to get a written copy none was provided.
Close Agua Dulce and Acton Elementary Schools and relocate the kids at Meadowlark.
Close Vasquez High and relocate the kids at High Desert Middle School.
Cancel class size reduction and increase class size to 30 to 40 students.
The Board called a special meeting for Monday 11-24-03 at 6:30 pm . No agenda is available. It is also rumored that they will call for a 3rd bond election in March 2004.
As soon as we get written confirmation of the "consolidation" we will publish it.
And who is hurting the kids - we taxpayers that refuse to waste more money or the Trailer Trash School Board that now is punishing the kids.
Recall the trash School Board and help the kids.
Some are claiming this was due to the Agua Dulce Airpark. It had nothing to do with the jet. The FAA confirmed that the jet was just to make a u turn 5000 feet above Agua Dulce and then return to Van Nuys. The Airpark was just a convenient reference point information.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-plane4nov04,1,2782383.story?coll=la-headlines-california
11-4-03 A T-33 jet that plunged into a mobile home park in Canyon Country was piloted by a San Fernando Valley doctor, who died in the crash, authorities said Monday.
The pilot, whose name was not released, had left Van Nuys Airport for a small airfield in Agua Dulce on Sunday at 3:47 p.m., said Donn Walker, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
The jet plummeted eight minutes later into the Mint Canyon Mobile Manor, near the intersection of Sand Canyon Road and Sierra Highway. It exploded, destroying two mobile homes and damaging several others, according to Howard Plagens, a senior air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board. The cause of the crash was not immediately known.
"I'm not sure anybody saw the event before it started," Plagens said. "All they reported was the airplane pointing straight toward the ground."
Mechanics were called to the scene to disarm ejection seats on the T-33, which Plagens described as an old Canadian military training plane.
Residents of the park were allowed to return home Sunday evening.
Authorities said no one was injured on the ground, but Walker said several pets were killed.
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