STOCKTON - San Joaquin Delta College must ax $62.5 million in improvements that had been planned for the Stockton campus and for satellite centers in Lodi, Manteca and Mountain House, officials said Thursday.
A $250 million bond passed by voters in 2004 will not pay for everything college officials had envisioned, administrators said at a public workshop Thursday.
Not all of the shortfall can be blamed on a Mountain House campus that some trustees now say was a mistake. Many other facilities are over budget as well, meaning some must be scaled back or cut completely.
"I know we're going to have to make some hard decisions," Trustee Maria Elena Serna said.
The smattering of citizens at Thursday's workshop had little chance to comment on a scathing grand jury report that said the board squandered as much as $50 million by planning its campus in Mountain House rather than Tracy.
College officials made it clear such comments were not welcome Thursday. The workshop was "not a forensic review of the past, so don't 'act as if' it is," said guidelines posted on the wall of the room.
Questioning board members about the grand jury report was not the purpose of the meeting, Delta College President Raul Rodriguez said.
"There will be other days," he said. "Today is not the day."
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