Guffanti and Gibson wasted 40 million dollars of Prop O taxpayer money

Back to Guffanti and fiscal irresponsibility.

Question for Guffanti, who was it that cost the taxpayers of VUSD 40 million dollars of Prop O money? Who were the two out of five board members who consistently and publicly opposed building the third high school on the cheap, level, fully graded, 50 acre site behind Strawberry Hill? Who forced the district to go through a several additional years of search, tens of thousands of dollars of researching other sites for a secondary high school site? Do you remember Guffanti? You ought to because YOU and GIBSON are the two WASTEFUL, SPENDTHRIFTS who did that.

It took FOUR of five board members to acquire the ONE MILLION dollar Strawberry Hill site in 2002 but TWO members were ADAMANTLY opposed and refused to change their minds.

Now instead of a fifty or sixty million dollar third high school started in 2002 and finished about 2004 or 5, we have a hundred million dollar high school at the EXPENSIVE, HILLY, UN-graded Melrose site. The extra 40 million dollars of cost is on YOU, Guffanti and your confederate in crime, Jim Gibson.
Seventeen million extra for the purchase of the Melrose site, millions more to grade it level enough for a school, millions more in additional grading and road building required by the very unfriendly City Council of Oceanside where the site was located. TOTAL at least FORTY MILLION dollars of waste.

The result of this colossal waste? The money for finishing landscaping and other items at the new middle school and some of the elementary schools is not there. They students are there but the schools are not done. The new high school is still not open for students at least four years after it would have opened had you supported the CHEAP, LEVEL, Strawberry Hill site that was inside VISTA CITY limits.

Aren't you proud of yourself Guffanti? Is this the dismantling of public education that the national anti public education group you supported in 2000 wanted?