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AHSCC proactive in face of rumors
By Lori Bledsoe
The Alpine Sun
EL CAJON — With rumors flying around
that Terry Ryan, Superintendent of Grossmont Union High School
District is saying now that there will be no high school in
Alpine, the Alpine High School Citizen’s Committee addressed the
GUHSD board members at their monthly meeting last Thursday
night.
Though the agenda of last Thursday’s GUHSD meeting did
not list the Alpine High School issue or the Proposition H funds
as specific items to be discussed, the board did make a decision
to increase the number of representatives on the Prop H Bond
Oversight Committee from seven to eight people.
This committee is in charge of overseeing how the
district spends the $400 million in funding, that voters
approved, to renovate and modernize existing facilities. This
bond also includes building GUHSD’s 12th high school, which has
been promised to be built in Alpine.
“We in Alpine have serious concerns... we need action
from the GUHSD Governing Board and Superintendent Ryan regarding
the new high school construction project,” said Bill Weaver,
AHSCC president, when he addressed the board on Thursday night.
“Under Dr. Ryan’s timetable, announced to Alpine at a community
forum, the district’s goal was to own property by now. Since the
four best sites were presented… we have heard nothing from the
district regarding progress on the purchase.”
George Barnett updated the new GUHSD board members on
the history of Alpine’s voting down its own high school measures
purposely to support GUHSD in its bonding efforts and for the
new 12th campus. He also reminded the trustees that they all
publicly committed to an Alpine high school during the campaign
debates in Alpine.
Al Haven, a long time supporter of a high school and
one of the original founders of AHSCC, thanked the board for its
ongoing support, reminding them of their obligations to fulfill
the voters’ wishes, which included a new high school.
GUHSD is having a Strategic Planning Meeting, scheduled
for Feb. 3, to discuss the Prop H funds and how they are being
spent. The representatives from the AHSCC requested an agenda
item to be listed for the strategy meeting, so that the AHSCC
can make a presentation to the board regarding the needs and
desires of the Alpine community in regards to a high school
facility.
In lieu of this upcoming GUHSD Strategic Planning
Meeting, the AHSCC has scheduled its own Strategic Planning
Meeting for Jan. 22, in the Oak Room of the Alpine Community
Center at 7 p.m.
This meeting has no scheduled speakers and is intended
to be a “working” meeting, to best plan how to represent
community needs to the GUHSD board, and how the community can
proceed strategically in the coming months. The public is
invited to attend and take part in the process.
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Christy Scott
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