| Our Voice |
| Written by Press Editorial Board | |
| Tuesday, 10 June 2008 | |
 BEHIND THE TIMES: A sign put up in Mountain House in 2004 proclaiming the 2007 opening of a San Joaquin Delta College satellite campus is now a testament to a stalled process, which has pushed the projected opening of the long-awaited school site to as late as spring 2009. Press file photo. Posts on an online forum crack jokes about how San Joaquin Delta College should offer hands-on courses in public works, construction and landscaping — if, that is, its long-awaited satellite campus ever opens in Mountain House. Digging Up Dirt 101 is another option. We’re just not sure what kind of dirt would be dug up in that class. You might remember the 2004 election, in which voters passed Measure L, a $250 million bond that would pay for the $55 million Mountain House digs, plus a $13 million Manteca campus, with whatever’s left to build something in Lodi-Galt and improve the main Stockton campus. Four years later, the south county site remains a dirt field on the edge of Mountain House, with a price tag that’s ballooned to $95 million, or even as high as $200 million, depending on who’s talking. Construction was supposed to start last spring, with portable buildings that would hold 3,000 students by this fall. But delays have been as abundant as the skyrocketing costs — with everything from disputes over contracts and annexation to time-consuming proposals to scrap the Mountain House location for one in Tracy (an idea we supported). |
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