Comments for Answer to Delta College dysfunction at http://tracypress.com , comment 1 to 28 out of 20 comments http://tracypress.com Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:53:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-56690 [url] http://sjdcwatch.blogspot.com/ [/url] - Tracy RealNews Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:45:25 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-56689 Sam Hatch: Is there a link on the blog site for sending email or getting on an email distribution list? Thinker has a good idea. Maybe an email distribution list would also help. More people might be interested and want to get involved. Does blogging help meet the qualifications. Sign me up too! ;) Thanks! - Tracy RealNews Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:44:58 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-56623 Where do I sign up? I'll run! When's the deadline? I am AGAINST the MTNHSE site--so STUPID next to Las Positas...and away from population centers! Plus the morning commute..those side roads are going to be so congested to get around the commute. Where's the Enviorn Report-- I'm not buying it. Give me a link to it, and I'll file suit. This is NOT a joke! - Thinker Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:59:54 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-56214 Well it looks like there was some good information, here, about the members of the SJDC Board and the links to the documents too. I'm also looking at another article in the Tracy Press that just appeared on the TP website. [url] http://tracypress.com/content/view/15367/2242/ [/url] Looks like some more professors are getting involved. Hope it will continue to raise the interest level and convince SJDC to do what is best. Sounds to me like a Tracy site would be the most economical sound plan for the future of the college. It would cost less to do actual building in Tracy and will offer the most return on taxpayer's investment. Given the long term vs. short term advantages; the college should pick the Tracy location for the future benefits of all involved. It would not only save student's fuel cost, but teachers too. And Tracy has ACE Train, SJRTD busses and other transit available already, with a Transit Station coming soon. [quote] rally as many people as possible to run against the school’s longtime trustees the group wants to hold incumbents to task by hearing why they’re running again, what they hope to accomplish and how they justify past actions. [/quote] Like that approach! Keep up the good work! - Tracy RealNews Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:11:07 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-56171 Tracy Real News, I hope the board will reconsider and move the south campus to the Christman Road site. But the majority the SJDC Board (as currently constituted)appear to be convinced that it's too late to leave Mountain House. I'm hoping a board with two or three new members might see the issue differently. - DeltaEnglish Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:04:41 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-56138 DeltaEnglish, Thanks! I will make the link clickable (below). [url] sjdcwatch.blogspot.com [/url] Thanks for getting the information out there. I will check out the link and the report. I hope the SJDC Board will consider the Chrisman and Eleventh St. site (in Tracy, CA) for the Delta College Campus! - Tracy RealNews Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:37:58 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-56042 For those who are interested in the crisis at Delta College both the grand jury report and the accreditation report are posted on SJDCWatch--sjdcwatch.blogspot.com. - DeltaEnglish Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:52:42 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55634 ;D - Tracy RealNews Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:22:46 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55633 Sounds like a WONDERFUL GAME to play!!! There is an upgrade for SIM City called: [b]SUE City[/b] ? - Tracy RealNews Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:22:05 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55610 Has anyone here ever played SIM City. Then you can make your own city. Finance it, take care of it. See if it grows or fails. I could not resist this. I did it a long time ago and found out we will have some unusual things to deal with. Underground pipes. Of course I added a marina and it went over well. My city was a fun place to live. It was hard keeping the roads in good condition. May have to drag that old game out again and reload it. I'm sure there is a newer version. ;D - maybenotdumBcommenT Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:26:18 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55600 "nice hair, prof.." - k.l.vosburg Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:45:22 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55590 Tracy Real News, Ted Simas and Greg McCreary voted to accept the offer from the city of Tracy to build at the Chrisman Road site. They were outvoted 5-2. There are documents available in a couple of places: Below is the link to the agendas and minutes of the Delta board of trustee http://www.deltacollege.edu/div/trustees/currentyear/index.html Below is the Delta College bond website http://www.bond.deltacollege.edu/ But I think the most useful site is SJDCWatch: sjdcwatch.blogspot.com It has dozens of articles from local newspapers on bond mismanagement, the grand jury report, and, in a few days, the accreditation report. - DeltaEnglish Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:48:10 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55578 To whom it may concern: Why is it that most candidates for the Assembly serve on the school boards before getting elected. Examples Aghazarian, Andal, Machado, and more. Coming sood Vahn, Thompson, Wingo, read those documents. t. b - Tom Benigno Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:11:10 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55466 Thought so ,too. The courthouse is not close by and we have lawyers eating here, browsing through books, and coffee.... very academic town. Could feel the "energy" of a town very much alive here, revenue is strong, here, too. 30 plus year strong. Bet businesses would love to have long term success and constant foot traffic in Family Friendly Town? Bye for now. -amy Thanks. -amy - amy Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:44:37 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55461 All, I think that if we put a college at Chrisman (coupled with a courthouse) it will keep the courthouse out of the Bowtie. Doing that would keep our downtown from being boarded up at night, like Stockton. I happened to drive to Stockton this week and noticed the area near the courthouse is not the most inviting neighborhood. Especially at night. Metal bars adorn the doors of restaurants and makes it resemble little jail cells on the street corners. Restaurant nearby looked somewhat empty. Stockton Hotel busy? Didn't look that way. I think it was a good thing they have the Police Station right there (near the courthouse) to keep tabs on the "social element". That works ok for Stockton with the Police Station right there, but would probably put a figurative, permanent, moratorium on any chance of Tracy's future, downtown, potential, revitalization. However, I think if the College and the Courthouse worked together at the Chrisman site the synergies would work wonderfully well together. Other cities take advantage of that type of juxtaposition too. I wouldn't worry about the downtown revitalization if we did that. It would suddenly start to flourish. Businesses would get more foot traffic from the college and the courthouse. Lawyers from out of town could go downtown for a bite to eat and then jump on a their favorite transit: taxi, bus, or train (when available) to go home after a hairy, week-long trial in Tracy, CA. - Tracy RealNews Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:31:28 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55460 amy, Just my thoughts. I do know that the Chrisman site is "city owned property". A good start. And contrary to talks with Mountain House, the SJDC already is operating in Tracy, CA. There was also another college. called, St Mary's of California (I think) that offered classes in Tracy. St Mary's College offered a Bachellor's Degree in Organizational Leadership (I think). They still might offer classes. I don't know. I saw a flyer somewhere a few years back, but can't remember where I got it. Maybe picked it up when I was in a restaurant lobby, or something. Anyway, Chrisman is about 100 acres (I think). That should be enough for a College (or College Consortium) Like SJDC and say St Mary's (or Turlock, etc). They should also put the Courthouse over there, as they could offer degrees related to that field, future Police Detectives could take classes right here in Tracy, CA. Future lawyers could practice at the courthouse, like one young prosecutor did the last time I went to Jury Duty. - Tracy RealNews Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:30:08 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55459 So anyway, what/where are the documents? - Tracy RealNews Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:07:03 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55458 Tom Benigno, Sounds either like mismanagement or that you know more, here? I'm afraid that mismanagement happens in companies all the time. I've been through it and spoke out to upper management about that too. Outcome was not always good, but I was ultimately the better person for it. Here is one example we can see at SJDC, while many could clearly see some major advantages and cost savings to putting the SJDC in Tracy. (Actually SJDC is already offering classes here, in Tracy, CA at three (or more) locations.) the school may not have had that vision and foresight. Happens with other candidates too. Would not want another grand jury or another courthouse idea here in Tracy either. Question: I heard that Simas was one on the board, who wanted to put it in Tracy, CA? Is that true? And were there others? Hope so! - Tracy RealNews Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:05:54 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55456 To whom it may concern: It was those documents I told you about. They needed to be examined and challenged, and read by the voters who never had a chance to vote the issues in. t. b - Tom Benigno Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:02:31 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15351/2244/#comment-55449 Tracy RealNews or someone who may know: I always thought that Chrisman(removed from the list of consideration for sports park) was going to be a campus, figured it was because of many high schools in Tracy and seeing that the graduates would want to go to nearby college? So how did it get way over there???? What happened? Also, lots of high schools at Mountain House? Just wondering, thanks. -amy -amy - amy Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:13:24 +0100