Our ANTI friends are desperate to extricate Jim Gibson from his abysmal record as a VUSD school board trustee. The part of the record that they are most concerned about is the 50 million dollars of taxpayer waste that Jim Gibson cost our good VUSD Taxpayers by refusing them the chance to build the third high school at the cheap level Kawano/ Strawberry Hill site.
The ANTIs are so terribly desperate that they have been reduced to lying and cherry picking facts to try to change the record of Jim Gibson's wanton disregard for taxpayer money. They do not want VUSD voters to know the following inconvenient facts:
(1) For 12 months (March 2002 - March 2003)after the school bond, Prop O, passed, Jim Gibson and Dr. Stephen Guffanti refused to allow the taxpayers of VUSD the chance to build the third high school at the last, cheap, level, vacant, 50 plus acre site left in our district.
(2)Finally the three good responsible board members gave up trying to convince Gibson and Guffanti to provide the LEGALLY required fourth vote to acquire this LAST good site in our district for the high school. In March of 2003, the THREE THRIFTY school board members voted to ask the VUSD search group to see if they could find another place as good as Kawano/Strawberry Hill site.
(3)After FIVE more months of search, in August of 2003 it was clear that there WAS NO PLACE in our district as cheap, level and quick to build on as Kawano/Strawberry Hill.
(4)The THREE THRIFTY school board members tried yet AGAIN in August of 2003 to get Gibson and Guffanti to allow the taxpayer the cheap level Kawano site now that it was absolutely clear that nothing as good as that site remained inside VUSD. (Most of VUSD was already completely built out with no large level high school sites left other than the Kawano site).
(5)Gibson and Guffanti still refused to allow the taxpayers access to the cheap level Kawano Strawberry Hill site. They just said no and no and no again.
(6) The result of their refusal to cooperate cost the taxpayers of our district an extra 50 million dollars. Their refusal forced the district to put the third high school at an inferior secondary site--the site at Melrose-- that was NOT level, not graded, not entirely in our school district, and worse inside the city limits of Oceanside which had a history of NOT cooperating with the VUSD.
Below is an example of cherry picking by one of our ANTI friends, "Dorothy" in order to try to hide the six inconvenient facts mentioned above. I took this cherry picking lie from the the comment section following the recent article (Tuesday October 13, 2009) about the new high school.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_6c857e07-a64e-5558-9274-96021809b9a3.html?mode=story
She is so desperate that she gives the URL of an article that proves exactly the opposite of what she says in her comments. I urge everyone who has any doubt about which side is lying and which is telling the truth in the Great VUSD Wars to read the article she refers to in her comments. Her comments are found here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_6c857e07-a64e-5558-9274-96021809b9a3.html?mode=comments
The article she is cherry picking is found here: Please read to see who is lying.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_675be210-95ff-5b76-bda0-4f74980ce7aa.html
Her comment were made on October 18 at 4:46pm
Our ANTI friend, Dorothy's, cherry picking lie to try to extricate Jim Gibson from his part in costing the VUSD taxpayers 50 million dollars:
con no more...here is the VOTE that I found for you and NCTimes even carried it...it was unanimous AGAINST the Strawberry Hill location for the Magnet High School. http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_675be210-95ff-5b76-bda0-4f74980ce7aa.html
Now, you owe Dr. Guffanti and Trustee Gibson an apology for blaming them for something that they didn't do! Again, get your facts straight yourself before you throw out accusations of wrongdoing.
My answer:
Dorothy, I am so disappointed with your post on October 18 at 4:46PM. You are well aware of the admonishment "not to bare false witness", yet in your post you did just that. Truth is full truth, not cherry picking.
I know you read the first two sentences of that article you refer to. Those sentences alone confirm all that I have written as does the rest of that article.
I invite all who wonder which side is the Great VUSD Wars is truthful and which is lying to read the article that Dorothy cherry picked her information from.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_675be210-95ff-5b76-bda0-4f74980ce7aa.html
As Dorothy knows the vote, the previous March, that was referred to in the article happened ONE FULL YEAR (March 2003) after the school bond Prop O was passed (March 2002) and a year after the Kawano Strawberry Hill site was selected as the LAST, level, cheap, vacant, high school sized site left in our school district.
For a full year the "THRIFTY THREE" school board members tried to convince the two wasteful ones (Gibson and Guffanti) to allow the taxpayers of VUSD to have access to the CHEAP LEVEL Kawano Strawberry Hill site.
Finally the "Thrifty Three" gave up and decided to instruct the VUSD search team to look for another possible site for the third high school. The Thrifty Three knew that each month of delay increased costs and delayed the opening of the new high school. The unanimous vote had to do with stopping preparations at Kawano and instructing the search team to look for a secondary site. All of these facts, YOU WELL KNOW, Dorothy.
The article your URL referred to was written in AUGUST 2003 after another five MORE months of fruitless searching, the search team had found NOTHING nearly as good as the cheap, level Kawano Strawberry Hill site was.
The Thrifty Three tried again at this board meeting in AUGUST 2003 to re-open the purchase of the cheap level Kawano property. This August 2003 meeting was SEVENTEEN LONG MONTHS AFTER THE SCHOOL BOND PASSED. At this August 2003, meeting Gibson and Guffanti again refused to allow the taxpayers access to Kawano Strawberry Hill. The wasteful duo, of Gibson and Guffanti, just kept saying no, no, and no again.
Now we are stuck with a 100 million dollar high school instead of a 50 million (possibly 52 million) dollar high school. ALL OF THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS more of expense are the DIRECT RESPONSIBILITY of JIM GIBSON and Dr. Stephen Guffanti and as a result of their 'just say no' attitude.
Proof of that is in the first two sentences of that article. Let me quote them for you:
"VISTA -- Vista Unified School District board members agree that building two magnet high schools is a top priority to ease overcrowding at the district's existing high schools, but they are struggling to reach agreement on where the new schools should be built.
Three board members (the Thrifty Three) say they wanted to build the high schools on a 50-acre tract known as Strawberry Hills in Bonsall. But the other two members (Gibson and Guffanti) said they want the district to put more effort into looking at smaller sites around the city.
I urge all who wonder which side is telling the truth to read the article that Dorothy refers to.
When will Jim Gibson apologize to the students and taxpayers of VUSD?
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