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High school EIR stalled by
property owners, projects
By Lori Bledsoe
The Alpine Sun
EL CAJON — During the Jan. 17 meeting,
the Grossmont Union School District board addressed student
safety issues, and welcomed information on the continuing
progress of the Proposition H Bond construction projects.
Randy Duncan presented the current progress report to
the board on all of the Proposition H Bond projects. During
Duncan’s report, he said that all campuses are currently under
the 2B construction phase, and this 453.4 million dollar program
will be updated with any new information on any future
additional funding possibilities.
Gafcon/Harris is approaching the launch of Sharepoint
360, an archiving program that will allow for easier reporting
on all the current projects.
Regarding the 12th school Environmental Impact Report,
Duncan reported that the researchers are currently looking at
the Fairy Shrimp population.
Another problem at the potential Chocolate Summit has
arisen, as the property owners are not allowing access to
consultants into the area for site inspections. Now a court
order is needed to access the Chocolate Summit site for future
inspections.
More problems could be found for the Lazy A site, which
is currently being looked at for a 186-residential unit
development on east Alpine Boulevard. The application will be
presented to the Alpine Planning Group at a meeting this
Thursday, Jan. 24.
In conclusion, Duncan brought the board’s attention to
the monthly report that is printed. Every month, the board
receives a bound progress report and Duncan requested that, in
order to be environmentally conscious and to save the planet by
saving paper, in the future, the board members review the
reports as they are posted on the web site. He did say that he
would be willing to continue producing reports upon request.
Only two speakers approached the board at this meeting,
Catherine Goodwater and Terry Holland. Both are parents of
attending GUHSD high school students who were involved in an
altercation during a football game located on the West Hills
High School campus, where one student was injured.
During this event, while the Color Guard and school
band were performing for a half-time show, football players
entered the field in an excited manner, breaking through the
band and color guard formations, injuring one of the performers.
Both Catherine Goodwater and Terry Holland were
returning to the board at this month’s meeting to ask the board
to create and enforce a policy, so that this behavior would not
occur again.
Terry Holland told the board that after researching
board policies, she did not find any policies that would
prohibit this behavior. She said, “This is a pretty important
policy that should be put in place pretty quickly.”
Superintendent Robert Collins said that it is not an
issue of district policy, but an issue of district procedure.
Football as well as Basketball, games have a half-time, and
auxiliary groups that perform during this time.
He said that the district would be contacting all the
coaches to inform them that no teams are to enter the playing
fields until all the auxiliary groups have exited.
“It is unfortunate what happened and we would hope that
everyone in the future would follow that procedure in the future
to ensure student safety,” Collins said.
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