ASSOCIATED PRESS
10:39 a.m. August 26, 2008
STOCKTON – The embattled trustees of San Joaquin Delta College say a grand jury is correct in its assessment that the board wasted millions of dollars of bond money.
In June, the San Joaquin County Civil Grand Jury had criticized the college's board for deciding to build a southern campus in Mountain House instead of Tracy. It said the decision cost taxpayers as much as $50 million.
The board voted unanimously Monday to accept the grand jury's findings.
Also this summer, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges gave trustees two years to develop a new code of ethics or risk losing accreditation. The commission said the board needs to stabilize management, be sensitive to the diverse student body and stop micromanaging the school's president.
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Even though this conclusion was self-evident, it was painful to watch the process.
The November election can't get here soon enough to finally take this Board apart.
From RecordNet.com....
Down to the dregs
We're too deep into the project to turn back now, so let's shovel what's left onto it.
That's what San Joaquin Delta College trustees did last week, earmarking $49.3 million for the college's Mountain House campus in the south county. That amount is most of what the district has left from $250 million in bonds approved by voters four years ago.
When the bonds were approved, the district had big plans and told the voters so. There would be a full-scale campus in the south county and a campus in Lodi. The plug has been pulled on the Lodi project.
The Mountain House project, delayed and delayed as trustees yammered over whether to put the campus in Tracy or in Mountain House, has been downsized considerably. An 89,000-square-foot permanent building is now going to be 55,000 square feet. There will be a dozen permanent portables, which sounds a bit like an oxymoron.
The San Joaquin County grand jury said last summer that the district had lost millions of dollars mismanaging the Measure L bond money. Still, taxpayers will get a dozen permanent portables.
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