Castaic High School scoping meeting!

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -700

This Tuesday March 8, 2011 The William S. Hart Union School District will hold a scoping meeting for the high school site in Romero Canyon in the board room of their offices at 21515 Centre Pointe Parkway, Santa Clarita, CA 91350 from 6 – 8 p.m. Agencies, Organizations and Interested Parties are welcome to attend and present information they think should be addressed in the EIR.

Tom Cole, the COO of the Hart District, mentioned this next step in moving towards our own Castaic High School at the informational meeting held February 15^th at Castaic Middle School. In a scoping meeting, the lead agency (Hart) receives input about the extent of the environmental study they will conduct. The environmental document produced in this study is the Environmental Impact Report, or EIR.

There will be no new information presented at this meeting that was not presented by the Hart District at the informational meeting at CMS. In fact, there will be no information presented at this meeting. Rather, the purpose of a scoping meeting is to gather comments and feedback. This is an optional step in the CEQA process to give all agencies and parties an efficient venue to participate and comment. I’ve enclosed a copy of the Notice of Preparation.

If you attended the informational meeting at CMS, you are current with Hart’s plan and progress. If you can attend Tuesday, that would be great. I’m so excited to see this process continue to go forward!!

Getting to know You

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -700

The parents got to hear first hand what was going to be expected of them and thier children as they entered Jr High School. The children also got time to check out the classromms and campus, Much of which was recently modernized.

I watched as parents were told what home work was going to be like, What the Physical Education program is all about,and whatparent volunteering really means to the teachers and staff..

Stay involved, check out your childs new school !

NIMBY's Everywhere!

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -700

This is in rebuttle to an article written in the signal, You must read it before this will make sense. Sorry

The Signal Article.

Hey, Mr. Castaic (and others) or whatever your name is. It’s easy to make these comments when you hide behind phony names. I have now heard IT ALL. You guys love to blame politicians and elected officials when you think we’re spewing lies BUT when it suits you, no problem right?

Where are you getting your numbers from the accounting and building fairy?

If you can build Castaic high school as YOU say for $20 million on Halsey Sloan have at it. Give us a proposal and we will vote on it. $20 million is great.

If you’re using the $18 million given out during the July 14^th meeting then you need to do more homework. That number is over $12 million off.

Mr. Rasmussen (the Romero developer) has not been given a dime by the district for the property.

No price has been set or will be set until the State of California decides what the property is worth
based on a State approved independent appraiser.

Why are the web sites down? Got me, I was able to get to your site, Mr. Lombardi’s site, and the Official school site.

The site that was active from Mr. Rasmussen was taken down by him at the request of the Hart Board. The page put up by the Facilities Foundation is still there.

So what sites are you talking about being down or missing? These are the kinds of inaccuracies that spread the poison that make it hard to work.

We will get nowhere if you people, YES I SAID YOU PEOPLE, don’t get honest about what you put out there. You are being disingenuous with the information you are putting out.

A few of you have asked me to attend a meeting with your “I am against Romero” or any other high school for that matter group. I gave Mr. Paradise my business card and in the usual fashion in these issues I was never called.

So apparently the group is not interested in getting the real information.

Just stirring it up.

I want to thank you for making it harder and causing us to spend more money to get this school built.

Let us know when you have solutions, REAL SOLUTIONS, and not just complaints.

Your information is not factual and frankly, it’s just deceitful.

I can be reached several ways... go to my website www.joe4hart.com
joe@joe4hart.com or come out and see me at any school board meeting

I will be happy to answer any question open and honestly.

Joe Messina

Too many high schools

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -700

What else,,, high schools! Yes! 3 high schools.

I spent the last 2 days looking at High school designs, What do I know about designing a high school?

NOTHING!

So I went and learned. I saw how kids congregate in the open and hidden spaces, I watched them move through lunch lines. Go to gym class, I saw how the performing art centers work. I spoke to administrators about flow and function for the different buildings and types, science, math, English and so on.

II saw that there were as many different ways to teach and set up a classroom as there were teachers.

We are on our way to designing and building Castaic High School

Stay tuned for more information

Going Solar!

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -700

We can enter into an agreement to Solar Power providers to install solar panels on ur schools at NO cost to the district. The District can save about 1 million dollars every five years. The cost of the equipment is not paid for by the district but by the provider.

One of the major "Heart Burn" points is that here is a 20 year lease required.

Staff has been instructed to get a few presentations so we cana look into it with greater detail.