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| Government Corruption |
| San Francisco Building $95M School Despite Fewer Students |
| 2022-09-20 |
| [San Francisco Chronical] Despite an enrollment decline that is leaving thousands of seats empty in San Francisco schools, the city’s school board is forging ahead with a plan to build a $95 million elementary school to open in three years. Drag Queen Hall The Mission Bay project has been in the works for more than two decades, as part of the master plan to develop the formerly industrial area. On Tuesday, the school board voted unanimously to accept the formal transfer of 2.5 acres for free from UCSF, which currently is in control of the land. Voters already approved the bond funding in 2016 to build the school, and environmental and other impact reports have been completed. The formal transfer of the property is one of the last significant hurdles before construction can begin. City and district officials say the project is part of a long-term plan to accommodate the families with school-age children who would move into the more than 80,000 new housing units citywide that officials hope will be built by 2030. Still, that’s uncertain. San Francisco finished only about 4,600 units last year citywide and could see fewer than that this year with residential construction slowed. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 That's cheap compared to what they spent to build a new high school here in Mass. in 2010 - Newton North, $195 million. |
| Posted by: Raj 2022-09-20 20:54 |
| #6 Lord Garth, the purpose of building schools is -- MORE UNION STAFF. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-09-20 20:22 |
| #5 I'm sure San Fran Nan will do very well from this. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2022-09-20 12:22 |
| #4 Unfortunately, school districts have been overbuilding for decades. Typical ploy is to under buy textbooks then use the lack of textbooks to get a tax increase then use the taxes to build another building. Another ploy is to use fantasy forecasts of student enrollment (as in the SF case). and, yes, sometimes they do both |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-09-20 09:47 |
| #3 Planning on the massive influx of Illegals. ☻ |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-09-20 09:10 |
| #2 "...School, schmool - the boodle ain't gonna distribute itself!" Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2022-09-20 08:17 |
| #1 Build it, they will come. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-09-20 00:24 |