Teachers and school board members don't care about wasting taxpayer money according to ANTIs

Our ANTI friends like to accuse VUSD teachers and the four PRO education school board members--Jaka, Herrera, Chunka and Lily of wasting taxpayer money. Not only are they wrong as teachers and the four thrifty school board members are extremely careful with taxpayer money but the greatest waste of VUSD taxpayer funds in history was caused by ANTI supported school board members, Jim Gibson and Dr. Stephen Guffanti. They cost VUSD taxpayers close to fifty million dollars.

Here is my response to Vista Watchdog 1, one of our most notorious ANTI bloggers.

con no more (that's me) said on: February 11, 2010, 1:10 pm
For VWdog and others worried about wasting taxpayer money, the biggest waste of taxpayer money was the increase in cost of our third high school from a projected cost of between 50 and 54 million in 2002 to 100 million today.

Think how much taxpayer money would have been saved if Jim Gibson and Dr. Stephen Guffanti decided to be, the required by state law, fourth board member to support the purchase of the cheap, level, Kawano property in 2002 or 2003. That property was identified by the VUSD search team as the best 50 plus acre site left in our district. There is no question that the high school would have cost far less than 100 million if the taxpayers had been allowed access to the Kawano site by either Gibson or Guffanti.

Grading alone at the hilly, ungraded, current site (Melrose) cost many many million more.

Jim Gibson ran a campaign against the cheap, level, Kawano site. Remember in 2002 his signs that said, STOP the 10,000 care megaschool? He was referring to the cheap level Kawano site but he never told tax payers how much more they would have to pay for a secondary site.

Jim Gibson has been no fiscal conservative on our school board. In the matter of finding a site for the third high school, his actions seem to indicate that he did not care one bit about wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.