Guffanti Built Schools in VUSD. Oh really?

The blogger who calls himself Plain Truth blogged the following plain lie on the North County Times blog following the article about the Magnet High School opening temporarily in free classrooms at Washington Middle School.

VISTA:Magnet high school opens at temporary site.

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_b0098020-4818-5d12-80ab-d35e127d11da.html

Plain Truth repeated one of Guffanti's greatest lies. The lie that he somehow should have credit for schools funded and built while he sat on the school board doing all that he could to sabotage funding for these schools.

The lie "nearly half the schools in the district were built while Guffanti was on the board" Tee, Hee.

Just which schools did Guffanti lift one finger to help get funded or built?

In my life time men landed on the moon, does that make me an astronaut?

You do know that Rancho Buena Vista High School was built with developer fees--money charged per house built inside VUSD? But did you know that Guffanti voted against raising our VUSD developer fees to the California state cap? He did not want our VUSD "government" schools to get the full amount possible. Sadly with not much empty land left in VUSD, developer fee money is a tiny fraction of what it was, too bad we did not capture all the money when it was possible, now sadly it is too late.

I remember he was on the board for the construction of Sierra Vista High School-built using money from a consortium of surrounding school districts. VUSD contribution was the land. The other districts provided the funds. Special Needs students from all the North County districts that funded the construction attend that school. What did exactly did Guffanti do?

Maybe he should get credit for the tiny mismanged VLACS charter school that he supported so vociferously from his seat on the school board. Guffanti was a board member of the VLACS charter AND a sitting VUSD school board member AT THE SAME TIME. Can you say conflict of interest?

Wait ,Wait it gets better. According to a PTA source, Guffanti sold VLACS his self published Rocket Phonics program to use as their reading program while he was a BOARD member of VLACS. Hmm could this be a bit of a criminal conflict of interest that benefitted him financially? I am not a lawyer but perhaps.

Interesting to note that VLACS was first closed after being found in violation of The City of Vista Building Code. There were numerous code violations in the 'classrooms' that Guffanti helped pick out for students to attend. The only charter in Vista that was ever closed by the City of Vista for code violation.

Finally financial irregularities and mismanagement ended VLACS. Guffanti's helping VLACS, a tiny charter school with only a few hundred students at its largest, really was a big help with the terrible overcrowding that VUSD suffered. NOT!

Prop O schools were all built while Guffanti was on the school board. He lifted not one finger to help getting the bond passed. He made not one phone call. He knocked on no doors. He did not send one letter to the editor to the newspaper in favor of Prop O. Nor did he write one forum piece in favor of the Proposition. The only forum piece he did write concerning the vote for placing Prop O on the ballot was in favor of REDUCING the size of Prop O which would have greatly REDUCED the number of schools built. In addition after Prop O passed, he forced the district to spend tens of thousands on looking for additional sites for the new high school. Worse Guffanti's opposition to the cheap level already graded fifty acre Kawano site resulted in the district spending tens of millions more for the next best site, a far less centrally located, completely ungraded, hilly piece of land on Melrose.