Volume 23 - San Diego Union-Tribune

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1 IF YOU LOOKED AT THE BROCHURES, THEY WERE HIGHLIGHTING THE BOARD
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AND THE DISTRICT'S ACHIEVEI'lENTS OF THE DELIVERY OF PROP BB.
Q. WERE YOU AROUND OR ANYWHERE INVOLVED WITH PROP O?
4 YOU S'l'lLL WITH HARRIS AND DID YOU SEEK TO RESPOND TO THE RFP'S IN
5 ORDER TO POTENTIALLY GE'l' THE CONTRACT E'OR PROP O?
6 A, YES, BUT --
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A~1 I JUlv]P:::NG AHEAD?
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JUST WANT TO BACK UP AND SAY THAT THE -- BECAUSE THE
9 DISTRICT KNEW I -- I POINTED OUT .I,LL THESE EXCLUSIONS, THE THINGS
10 THAT WEREN' 'I' FUNDED, AND WE NOW HAD ACTUAL COST OF \~HAT THINGS
11 WERE GOING TO COST. I DEVELOPED THE -- WORKING WITH LPA, WE
12 UPDATED \~HAT WAS THE l1ASTER PLAN AND CREATED THE LONG Rl\NC;E
13 FACILITIES l1ASTER PLAN. IT TOOK THEIR CUl1l1INGS ESTIl1ATES THAT
14 HAD THE EXCLUSIONS AND OVERLAID IT WITH ACTUALS AND REl10VED THE
15 EXCLUSIONS AND DEVELOPED A LONG RANGE FACILITIES MASTER PLAN FOR
16 A BILLION AND 89 l1ILLION DOLLAR l10DERNIZATION NEED. NOW, THAT
17 INCLUDED THE PROP BB, WHICH WAS ABOUT 3 -- WITH THE STATE l1ATCH,
18 ,'lAS ABOUT $336 l1ILLION. SO I IDENTIFIED THAT THERE'S ANOTHER 644
19 l1ILLION NEEDED TO FINISH :::'1' AND THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE ROUC;HLY
20 400 11 ILL ION OF 'I'HE NEW SCHOOL REQUIREl'lEN'I'S, WHICH :}lC~U,)ED
21 OLY",IP:::.'" HIGH SCHOOL AND ."'}lOTHER COMBINED HIGH SCHOOL, l"!IDDLE
22 SCHOOL.
23 BU'I' -- AND I REt-lEl-omER CONVEYING TO ED BRAND -- HE SAl'),
24 II Rl\NDY , YOU'RE IN CHULA VISTA. YOU'RE USING THE B :;JORD." HE
25 SAID, "THAT'S FOR YOU GUYS UP IN LOS ANGELES, THE BIG GUYS. THIS
26 B WORD IS}l'T GOING TO SIT WELL." AND I SAID, "WELL, ED, YOU GUYS
27 ASKED ME TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH IT WAS GOING TO COST TO MODER}lIZE
28 THE RES'l' OF THE BUILDINGS AND BUILD THE NEW STRUCTURES, THE