Volume 23 - San Diego Union-Tribune

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1 ABATEMENT, EXCLUDES ESCALATION -- IT HAD A BUNCH OF EXCLUSIONS.
2 ANYTIME YOU HAVE A BUNCH OF EXCLUSIONS IN THE DOCUMENTATION THAT
3 BECOMES THE FOUNDATION OF THE BOND MEASURE ITSELF, OBVIOUSLY YOU
4 ARE SHORT FUNDED FROM THE GET-GO.
5 THAT SAID, I CONVEYED TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR -- DIRECTOR
6 OF FACILITIES, THE FINANCE TEAM OF BARRY DRAGON AND DIANNE RUSSO
7 AND TO THE FACILITIES AND FINANCE SUBCOMMITTEE, WHICH WAS
8 COMPRISED OF TWO BOARD MEMBERS, THAT WHAT WE WOULD DO -- IT
9 DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO GO AIR-CONDITION ALL THE BUILDINGS ON
10 CAMPUS, BECAUSE IF YOU WERE TO COME BACK AND NEED TO ABATE THE
11 ASBESTOS OR LEAD-BASED PAINT LATER, YOU'LL RIP OUT ALL THE DUCT
12 WORK YOU PUT IN. IF WE'RE GOING TO TOUCH A BUILDING, WE'RE GOING
13 TO GUT THE BUILDING. WE'LL DEMO IT DOWN TO THE STUDS. WE'LL
14 ABATE AND ERADICATE AND MITIGATE ALL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, SO
15 THESE ARE HAZARDOUS MATERIAL FREE STRUCTURES, AND WE WILL BUILD
16 THEM OUT FROM THE INSIDE, PUT IN THE SMART CLASSROOMS, THE
17 TEACHING WALLS, THAT WAS UP TO THE STANDARD THAT THE DISTRICT
18 WANTED TO GO TO.
19 AND WE -- AND WE COLLECTIVELY DETERMINED -- AND IT WAS
20 CONSISTENT WITH MY RECOMMENDATION, WAS LET'S ESTABLISH PARODY
21 THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT. SO IF WE TOUCH A CLASSROOM AT CHULA
22 VISTA HIGH SCHOOL, IF WE'RE MODERNIZING IT, IT WILL BE MODERNIZED
23 TO THE SAME STANDARDS AS ANY OF THE OTHER HIGH SCHOOLS, THUS
24 ACHIEVING PARODY. AND I SAID IF YOU -- YOU ARE CLIMBING OUT OF A
25 SITUATION WHERE THE COMMUNITY WASN'T HAPPY WHERE THE PROGRAM WAS
26 GOING. YOU WANT TO SHOW THE PARENTS THAT THERE ARE BEFORE AND
27 AFTER BOND DOLLARS. SO WE WILL GO INTO THESE BUILDINGS AND WE
28 WILL COMPLETELY MODERNIZE THEM.