Facilities Planning
Quotes By Catagory

McCully confirmed not all district schools meet CUSD standards, contrary to claims of Fleming and Trustees during recall

May 06, 2007
Sam Miller, The Orange County Register "The images that recall volunteers most depended on were photos of old portables that they said showed failures in facilities planning. City officials in Mission Viejo and PTA parents at Newhart Middle have continued to call for more facilities work, and Charles McCully, who recently served as interim superintendent, said not all schools meet CUSD standards."

Miller is the South Orange County education reporter for The Orange County Register.

Newcomer Smith characterizes some critics of district facilities as people who "scream and yell and throw a tantrum"

May 06, 2007
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Dennis Smith, The Orange County Register "You can come and yell and scream or throw a tantrum, but when we think this thing through and we have this amount of money and we’ve identified the priorities, then that’s what we do. And it’s not who can scream the loudest who will get the project done. That’s not fair to anybody."

Smith is the Superintendent of the Capistrano Unified School District.

Smith has five-year plan for deteriorating schools

May 06, 2007
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Dennis Smith, The Orange County Register "It’s one of the bigger issues in the district. We’re going to try to connect up the highest priorities in the district with the revenue stream and communicate out to everybody that these are the projects we’re going to fund over the next five years."

Smith is the Superintendent of the Capistrano Unified School District.

Lunch on the run at Capo Valley High

Sep 11, 1998
The Orange County Register "The feeding frenzy began at 12:06 p.m. on Thursday at Capistrano Valley High, where lunch lines were as long as those at a Moscow money exchange."

The 2,900 students were left with just 30 minutes to eat lunch. This is the fastest-growing high school in Orange County's fastest-growing school district.

Superintendent Fleming blames partisan politics for district construction whoas; ignores district's own facilities planning failures

May 18, 1998
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James Fleming, The Orange County Register "They're holding the children hostage. The Republicans have said no, despite the fact that they were elected to represent the fastest growing school district in the state."

The state legislature voted against putting a statewide bond measure for school construction on the June 1998 ballot. A bloc of Republicans thwarted the bill, which would have allocated $6.5 billion for primary and secondary school construction. Of course, Fleming offers no explanation why the Irvine and Saddleback school districts, with similar growth and demographics, were able to cope much better. Fleming is the Superintendent of the Capistrano Unified School District.