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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few years ago voters approved a new elementary school for the Fairfax/Oakton area.  The current school board voted to move these voter approved funds to re-open the Dunn Loring school which is not needed.  This has turned into a $60 million waste of taxpayer dollars.  Until the school board can show that they will be a good steward of taxpayer dollars and follow through on voter approved projects I will be voting "No".   [/quote]

I'm pissed about Blake Lane too, but the bond funds were not earmarked for that school and voting against bonds now does not fix the crowding situation we have.

Worth remembering that every candidate in that board election (and some non-candidates, like Gerry Connolly) came out against the Blake Lane school, and most of those people are no longer on the Board. I'm still mad about it but we're 5 years out from 2019 and being mad hasn't gotten us a new school.[/quote]

To the extent bond proceeds are ever “earmarked” they were earmarked for a “Fairfax/Oakton ES.”  In getting that money reallocated it’s likely Karl Frisch asked division counsel to jump through some hoops to conclude a school in Dunn Loring instead could still be characterized as a “Fairfax” elementary school. Otherwise it starts to seem like taxpayers were fraudulently induced to vote for a bond referendum.

But the bigger issue is that, if a school wasn’t needed at Blake Lake, then it shouldn’t have been built there, but there also should have been a candid discussion with local residents in western Providence about the implications.

Instead, Frisch’s actions guarantee families will be sending their kids to a very big Mosaic ES for many years, decades will pass before anyone ever considers a new ES in Fairfax/Oakton again, and a school that isn’t needed at the Dunn Loving site will get built just to put the final nail in the coffin with respect to Blake Lane. They could have had a bonfire and burned the $60M in cash, and it would still be less disruptive than the Dunn Loring boondoggle will be. Many kids in the Marshall pyramid will be redistricted from schools that are under capacity, and an elementary school closer to the growth in Tysons will also end up getting deferred for many years.

But that’s a reason to replace or recall Frisch, not prevent other schools from getting renovated. [/quote]

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