Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Grand Jury: Delta College trustees have wasted millions of your money

San Joaquin Delta College trustees have wasted millions of dollars of voter-approved bond money by ignoring staff recommendations and pursuing a campus at Mountain House, the cost of which has soared from $55 million to $94 million, the San Joaquin County Civil Grand Jury charged in a report released this morning.

The Grand Jury said it has “no confidence” in the Board of Trustees, which declined an invitation to build in Tracy and stuck with a public-private partnership in Mountain House. Nothing has been built there; the college plans to bring in portables to house students in the interim, but infrastructure needed to do so has not been installed by the developer.

Complete article here

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