David Hubbard was against the Kawano site! say our truth challenged ANTI friends

One of our ANTI friends who usually is honest was not today. JustTheFacts feel into the same pattern of dishonest posting as our ANTI friends Roxy, Vista Watchdog 1, Dorothy, Plain Truth and others. I am saddened by this development

JustTheFacts is almost always on the wrong side politically but in the past he has tried to stay truthful. However today he incorrectly asserted that David Hubbard was against the purchasing the cheap level Kawano site. The Kawano site would have saved VUSD taxpayers somewhere around 50 million dollars in construction costs on Mission Vista High School. The assertion that David Hubbard the greatest proponent of building the third high school was against the cheap level Kawano site is silly on the face of it. But JustTheFacts repeated it anyway. Apparently he got this incorrect informaintion from other ANTIs most notably Vista Watch Dog 1 who has made this same false claim previously. VWdog's posts have shown that he has no moral qualms whatsoever in making things up. But until today JustTheFacts did not engage in such behavior.

Perhaps because ANTI supported board members Jim Gibson and Dr. Stephen Guffanti actually did obstruct building the new high school the ANTIs think that their claim that other reasonable board members did as well has credibility.

I maintain that neither Gibson or Guffanti actions as school board members showed that either one had any urgency about opening the third high school. They had no reason to care whether a new high school was opened or not. Neither of them have any of their own children attending any of our fine VUSD schools. Most of their supporters also did not have children in our schools. So the delay of five years and the increased cost of fifty million dollars in the cost of Mission Vista High School did not cost either Gibson or Guffanti anything in their own homes or politically from their anti public education supporters.

Listed at the end of my reply to ANTI blogger JustTheFacts are six reasons why Kawano site was far superior to the Melrose site that taxpayers of VUSD had to settle for. Remember neither Gibson or Guffanti would allow themselves to be the legally required fourth of five board members to support acquiring the Kawano property. Even though our two ANTI board members (Gibson and Guffanti) were in the minority, California state law required a SUPER majority to purchase the Kawano land. This supper majority requirement allowed Gibson and Guffanti with their obstructionist tactics to hold the school board and the taxpayers of VUSD hostage.

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_b2a39fd6-a2d2-54e4-a042-22c3d319df47.html?mode=comments

My response to JustTheFacts incorrect assertion about David Hubbard not supporting purchase of the Kawano site:

JustTheFacts is now for the first time truth challenged with one of his posts—the one at 8:42am.

I knew he has been a bit blind in his defense of the obstructionists--Jim Gibson and Dr. Stephen Guffanti. He has on a number of occasions tried to rational their inexcusable lack of consideration for tax payer money. However today is the first time I have read one of his post that is factually in error. His post today comes either from ignorance or something worse at 8:42am when he incorrectly asserts: "Kawano was completely unsuitable and Hubbard wouldn't have supported it either"

As this entire community knows David Hubbard would have loved the chance at Kawano as he said over and over and over again. He was the driving force to get the third high school built. Without his strong support their might never have been a third high school at all. He was quoted in this newspaper:

DAVID HUBBARD: "That is the best site (Kawano) we have identified and nothing has even come close," he (Hubbard) said. "I know the people that live out there don't want the high schools, but I do want what is best for all the students. I'll take the heat."
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_675be210-95ff-5b76-bda0-4f74980ce7aa.html

It is important for the voters in VUSD to know who is trying to be accurate with their posts and who is intentionally trying to mislead the voting public. Please, I urge anyone who has any question about which group of nctimes bloggers is truthful and which group is not, to read the article at the above URL.

There is no question that the newspaper reporter who wrote it understood that Jim Gibson and Dr. Stephen Guffanti alone were responsible for not allowing the taxpayers of VUSD access to the cheap level Kawano site.

The quote from David Hubbard also puts to rest JustTheFacts spin that the Kawano site was unsuitable.

Here is a comparison of the two sites, the cheap Kawano site that the thrifty board members favored and the inferior secondary site that VUSD was forced to take when Gibson and Guffanti refused to support the cheap Kawano site.

(1)Kawano was cheap-- one million dollars estimated cost, compared to 18 million for the secondary Melrose site.

(2)Kawano was zoned agricultural making it less expensive land than the zoned for housing Melrose site.

(3)Kawano was level and fully graded so no expensive grading was required. Melrose was hilly and needed millions extra in site preparation and grading that Kawano did not need.

(4)Kawano was inside the boundary of the City of Vista which historically has cooperated with VUSD. The Melrose site was inside Oceanside City limits. The Oceanside City Council zoned the site for housing costing VUSD more. The O'side Council added onerous grading and intersection improvement requirements adding millions more. In fact Oside city council was down right hostile to having VUSD build a high school for the third of their city's students that are inside VUSD boundaries.

(5)The Kawano site purchase would have allowed construction of the third high school to begin in the summer of 2002 and be completed as early as the fall of 2005 instead of beginning five years later in the spring of 2007 at the Melrose site and not being done until the fall of 2010.

(6)Not being able to use the Kawano site cost our VUSD high school students five more years stuck in two terribly overcrowded high schools.