If the Kawano site was so good why didn't the board revisit its decision

Our ANTI friend, JustTheFacts in an attempt to re-write history tries to blame the frugal and reasonable three member majority for not having the good sense to go back and re-visit the issue of obtaining the cheap level Kawano site for the third high school.

Of course they did. Time after time they tried to get either Jim Gibson or Dr. Stephen Guffanti to budge in their stubborn and VERY costly opposition to the best 50 plus acre site left inside our school district. Newspaper accounts document their efforts.

And our ANTI friends neglect to mention that had either Jim Gibson or Dr. Stephen Guffanti had made a motion to purchase the cheap level Kawano site the three cost conscious members of the board would have passed it in an instance. VUSD was only stuck with the expensive hilly Melrose site because neither Gibson or Guffanti would allow VUSD taxpayers access to the Kawano site.

Here is what I wrote in blue to our ANTI friend:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_2be594d0-151b-5bff-813a-9e03c68254a4.html

Just the Facts also writes from possibly intentional ignorance when he writes at 9:03am,

"If the "cheap level high school site at Kawano's Strawberry Hill" was actually as good as con no more keeps telling us, why didn't the Board recognize that they might need a backup site and go back and revisit the site?'

Just the Facts is aware that the three thrifty reasonable cost conscious school board member dis just that. Below is a URL of a NCTimes articles where the three tried to get gibson and guffanti to relent in their stubborn opposition to the cheap site. This article refers to a school board meeting over a year after the site was first identified in the spring of 2002:

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/08/10/news/inland/vista/8_10_0323_00_12.txt


Vista still searching for home of magnet high schools
August 9, 2003

"Three board members say they wanted to build the high schools on a 50-acre tract known as Strawberry Hills in Bonsall. But the other two members said they want the district to put more effort into looking at smaller sites around the city.The board couldn't agree on the Strawberry Hills site…"
"Board members Jim Gibson and Stephen Guffanti said they refuse to support condemning the Kawano property (Strawberry Hill)"


Here is an article showing that the three taxpayer 'good guy"school board members were still trying as late as May of 2005. After three years of fruitless tries, the three reasonable and thrifty school board members still could not get either Gibson or Guffanti to shift from their stubborn and extremely costly opposition to the cheap level Kawano site.

See the URL below:

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/05/29/news/inland/vista/22_38_385_28_05.txt

VUSD sees Melrose campus as key project
Saturday, May 28, 2005 10:48 PM PDT

"The long road"

"Vail said the district seriously considered three other sites before settling on the Melrose property. Those sites included property south of Highway 76 off East Vista Way that didn't work out for environmental reasons; the "Kawano" or "Strawberry Hill" property that failed to generate enough support among school board trustees; and the Lincoln Middle School/Vista City Hall site that fell through because the state wouldn't provide necessary funding."