Comments by jlundell
May 11, 2005
This meeting, by the way, is at 7pm in the Hatch Multipurpose Room (no WiFi, I think).
The agenda item:
The Board will discuss and consider the construction and location of the middle school along with other issues related to facilities.
The full agenda is available here; there's not much else on it.
May 07, 2005
Curiously, at the same time that HMB's population was increasing by 2.6%, Cabrillo Unified School District's enrollment dropped by 3.4%.
Of course, HMB makes up only about half of CUSD, but I'd be surprised if the population of the midcoast is dropping.
This is a continuing puzzle, and one I wish the school district were more interested in solving.
March 22, 2005
Too bad, but we can hope for the best.
The Craigslist link is no more, btw.
March 08, 2005
Thanks for the banner follow-up.
March 05, 2005
It does seem noticeably snappier, yes.
February 21, 2005
Terrorist threats? On a banner? Inquiring minds want to know what it said!
February 14, 2005
What I find alarming is the rapidly inflating cost of campaigning on the coastside. Each of the three school board candidates spent approximately a dollar per eligible voter: about $10,000 per campaign, mine included. There are a lot of seats on the coastside ballot this November, and I'm afraid that our elections will be awash in money. Where will the money come from? Well, there are billions in potential development on the coastside, and an investment of a few thousand in a local city council or…
January 25, 2005
It's clear enough that there is a lot of statistical noise in these scores, which makes a goal of a 2-point improvement laughable. On the other hand, the district has been willing to pat itself on the back when these scores improve; it's only fair to accept some blame when they go down. On the whole, the California Standards Tests (CST) scores seem more useful, in that they let us see how specific groups of students did on specific tests. CST scores form the core of our NCLB goals as well--in particular…
January 16, 2005
Surviving a Tsunami (USGS, 1999). Interesting stuff.
December 21, 2004
Lake Tahoe changes are in the news today as well. It's a degree warmer, top to bottom, in the last 30 years.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/21/MNGQCAF5ES1.DTL
November 12, 2004
The National Weather Service says:
SATURDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLEAR. PATCHY VALLEY FOG. LOWS IN THE 40S TO LOWER 50S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH...BECOMING EAST AROUND 5 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
No fog; too bad...
November 10, 2004
I'm trying to make out the exact location of the boundary between wards 6 & 7. Near as I can make out, it follows Lobitos Creek Road to Tunitas Creek Road, and then Tunitas up to Skyline. It's a little hard to tell from the map. My first reaction when the candidate ward boundaries were proposed was the same as Barry's: that we'd want to concentrate the coastside voting power into one ward. The problem with that is that the entire coastside would still only be 30% of its ward--significant, to be sure,…
October 27, 2004
While Gardner and Mosely don't dispute the content of the ad, I certainly do. Here's a partial list of my objections. The ad claims that the League for Coastside Protection "is about stopping growth and not about what is in the best interests of students." The stated purpose of the LCP is to make sure that the law, as expressed in the California Coastal Act and our Local Coastal Programs, is enforced. Is this "about stopping growth"? Only where growth is contrary to the law. When and if Wavecrest…
November 10, 2004
The Review now says that they "feel it is important to interview the candidates and tell readers where we stand."
But the Review didn't bother to interview the candidates last year before making their recommendations.
Make up your mind.
October 21, 2004
I'm grateful for Mr Miller's support; thank you. I'm dismayed, though, by the Review's new letter policy. Whatever the paper's shortcomings, the letters page had been built up under former editor David Gorn to be a lively community forum never more so than during a campaign season. Reasonably, the Review refrained from publishing political letters in the last issue before election day, to guard against attacks that couldn't be responded to. But that was pretty much the only restriction, and the paper…
October 19, 2004
Charlie,
Say they're full for the sake of the argument (though the capacity numbers in the FMP contradict that). You're still saying that reducing the number of students implies that we need bigger multipurpose rooms?
Maybe that's something you need to go to facilities planning school to understand, but please explain it to us laymen.
October 19, 2004
Charles, I propose to build a new middle school, per the language of Measure K, at Cunha (though I read the measure's language as permissive rather than restrictive). I'd be happy to provide a copy of my bond counsel's opinion; if you have a contrary one, please let me see it. As for litigation, no doubt there are obstructionists on all sides of this question. No doubt no matter what we end up doing, somebody's going to threaten a lawsuit. I don't think it's good policy for the board to give in to…
October 19, 2004
Hey, Charlie, In several candidate forums, and again last night at the Kings Mountain forum, you've complained that under my facilities proposal (build an elementary school at Wavecrest, shift from K-5 to K-6, and make Cunha a grade 7-8 JHS) we'd have to expand elementary facilities such as multipurpose rooms--even though my propsal reduces elementary site enrollment by more than 10%. Can you explain how a drop of 50-60 students per site would require expanding multipurpose rooms? Second, you've…
October 15, 2004
Mr Gardner plays fast and loose with the facts. First, district enrollment peaked at 3,889 in 1997-98. Our enrollment this year is 3,489 (not counting 41 home schoolers that are receiving services). That's a fall of 400 from our peak enrollment, a far cry from Mr Gardner's claimed 19. More to the point, the Facilities Master Plan (which is the basis for our middle school plans) projected 4,858 students this year, That's 1,369 more than we actually have attending our schools. As for Sea Crest and…
October 11, 2004
Charlie, Unfortunately, I won't be asking the questions at the CUTA forum. Hopefully you can find the time over the next week to address the issue here. If I'm making a false supposition, let's use this forum to clear it up. I'll start by making my supposition explicit (though I think it was clear enough before): it does us little good to build new classrooms unless we have teachers to staff them. Additional classrooms (and the teachers to go along with them) can address two issues. One: enrollment…
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