 Not enough InformationJune 5, 2010June 4 - After hearing the High School would still cost us 160 million without the land, I had to take my medication, after seeing Eleanore Roosevelt High School and a few others and getting the information that showed it was built for 109 million including soft costs, desks, chairs and such and at a time (about 4 years ago) when building charges were at thier peak, It peaked me to look at other schools. Lets look at these... Citrus Valley HS in Redlands Unified. A beautiful HS for 2500 kids with a PAC, football stadium with synthetic turf and track for $87 million hard, soft and land costs included. Built at the height of the high inflation economy. ¨ Media Center
¨ Double Hallways/Natural Light thru Skylights
¨ Theatre with Theatre seating
¨ Pool
¨ Football Stadium
¨ All-weather Track
¨ Interactive Whiteboards
¨ State-of-the-art Security System
¨ Advanced Technology
Palm Desert High School in Palm Desert has 78 teaching stations on 41.7 acres. School has 6 2-story classroom buildings, Full Gymnasium, Football stadium w/lights, Cafe style full service cafeteria, 2-story admin and Library, a performing arts bldg that seats 400+ and an aquatic center. All under construction right now for $64 million Shadow Pines HS Go to the Castaic High Gallery to see other Schools! MAY 24th - The presentations to the Board on May 5th left me with more questions than I had going into the meeting. This Board Member doesn't understand some of the issues that are not being dealt with on the front end. THE FATAL FLAWS! We need answers to the quick and easy determinations. Can we get water to the site? How long? How much? Do we need a second bridge? How much? How Long? Can we use Prop 39 money for these items? If we had to go to eminent domain, again, how Long? how much? We were told it would cost over 200k to cap an old oil pump pipe from a consultant, a professional, I made 45 phone calls to other professionals and found the price was overinflated by at least 100k. I got a range from 40k to 85k. AGAIN I am not a professional and will be asking why the spread? I will be asking the Lundgen Consultants and others involved these and other questions and hope that we can get them answered for me in the coming days. District reports for Castaic on web site ... Click Here Superintendent's report on Castaic High ... Click Here Castaic Town Council has a prefrence ... Click Here Comments |
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We need to stop listening to rumors, come to the meeting and ask the questions. Some of the consultant fees we are paying would go for an EIR anyway. Some trustees DO want to build that school properly, I am one of them.
What about the Las Valles property - reliable rumors have it, it IS still in the running... the consultants are a WASTE of money, narrow minded and have probably been bought off
I find it crazy that Castallanos said approx 6 months ago, that HE WOULD LOVE to build a school but Castaic cant make up their minds on a location, he then turns around AFTER the Council makes their recommendation(balance of text corrupted)
Hi Joe.. As a Civil Engineer I can tell you that this is not even a close call... The massive unknowns, and the extraordinary off-site costs of the Romero Site make it unfeasible for a 50-acre pad site. And I can prove it to you.