By Mike Martinez
Tri-Valley Herald
Article Created: 06/27/2008 06:03:50 PM PDT
STOCKTON — San Joaquin Delta College needs to make more than $60 million in cuts to projects that were expected to be built through a bond measure approved in 2004.
A bond team, made up of administrators and faculty at the college's Stockton campus, is expected to provide the Board of Trustees with a series of scenarios where the savings could be made up, including scaling back new campus sites planned for Mountain House and Lodi.
"We'll get it done,'' Trustee Dan Parises said after the meeting. "I'd like to see the more in-depth study that's going to come out of all this. The housing market going down and the price of construction going up — those are things we had no control over.''
It's the latest bad news for the college district, with the possibility of more on the way.
Last week, the San Joaquin County Grand Jury slammed the college's governing body, saying the trustees wasted millions in bond money.
Their investigation also found at least one board member provided closed-session information to the developer and his consultant.
In another potential blow to the college, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, which oversees the accrediting commission for community colleges and junior colleges in California, is expected to release a less than stellar accreditation review in the next few days.
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