PPH Schedule Delayed 9 Months!

PPH has revised the date for the completion of the new hospital to April 2012 from July 2011. This delay has resulted in the need to pay DPR, the project construction managers, an additional $13+ million for their services. PPH has yet to discuss what features of the new hospital will need to be cut in order to make funds available for the additional $13+ million.

City Of Escondido Redevelopment Funds - Transparency Needed!

Last Fall, I learned that funds from Escondido Redevelopment Agency (Community Development Commission) had been promised to Escondido school districts.

The City failed to provide information to initial public records requests about the promised redevelopment funds in a timely manner. After information was obtained from the school districts, the City then provided information about the promised redevelopment funds AFTER the election was over for Prop T in 2008.

That reaction by the City indicated to me that more transparency is needed with respect to redevelopment funds.

Last March 18, 2009 at a City Council meeting, comments by a Police Union representative about an audit of City funds yielded some interesting comments about the redevelopment funds promised to the school districts.
Comment Video

Based on those comments, the City may be using "loans" to as a mechanism to withhold funds promised to the school districts.

This is what was reported when the Redevelopment Agency was approved back in 1984.

"Redevelopment to aid schools"
Times Advocate, Thursday, December 13, 1984, Page B1
"ESCONDIDO - If the city's proposed redevelopment agency generates as much money over the next 45 years as its proponents say it will, the Escondido Elementary School District could get eight elementary schools, two middle schools and unlimited new classrooms, all paid for with redevelopment money. The Escondido High School District could get three new high schools, two new continuation high schools and more class rooms. Those are some of the provisions contained in drafts of nine different agreements approved 4-0 Wednesday night by the City Council. . . . Approved with little comment, the agreements were negotiated with various agencies that would lose money to the redevelopment agency as it siphons tax revenues from them to pay for a civic and cultural center, downtown improvements and housing assistance for the poor."

Times Advocate, Sunday, November 18, 1984, Page B1
"How much? What agencies would contribute to the cost of redevelopment [in Escondido].
San Diego County $63 million
High school district $51.9 million
Elementary school district $68.3 million
Hospital district $5.8 million "

Oct 12, 1990, EUHSD's share of redevelopment funds = $145 million
Spreadsheet dated Oct 12, 1990 showing EUHSD's share being $145 million allocated by the Escondido Redevelopment Agency for new high school construction and esisting school refurbishment (from link below)

Tax Rate Details and Assumptions (Response from EUHSD to Public Records Request)

~80 page Agreement with Escondido Redevelopment Agency, 1991 & 1984 (Response from EUHSD to Public Records Request)

First response by City of Escondido (NOTHING!) [Second response was a copy of response from EUHSD above]

San Diego County Taxpayers (between $82 million and 254 million - Redevelopment Funds [page 3])

PPH Schedule Delays On New Hospital

I predict that PPH will soon need to admit to schedule delays on its new hospital.
Page 65 of 70 of the PPH Board Packet for July 13th is telling!

"Prior CM unrealistic schedule" (CM=construction manager).

Translation. The PPH Board does not yet know the extent of the schedule delays because DPR, the new construction managers, have not yet finalized it.

PPH strategy? Blame Rudolph and Sletton, the previous contruction managers!

Who could have predicted that!

Covert to City: MOU May Simply Go Away!

PPH claims that the Citracado extension to Valley Parkway, which is not due for completion until a decade after the City gets the money for the project, may make the MOU go away!

Listen to the audio (30 seconds) of Covert telling the city (Daniels, Grimm & Domingue) that the MOU may go away. (You will need to turn up the volume).

The NCTimes reported it as if the City is at fault!
Citracado 'connector' delayed to 2013, upsetting PPH officials

There is no delay on the Citracado extension. What is delayed is the Downtown Medical Village promised by PPH to the City of Escondido.

Watch videos of PPH's promises by Marcelo Rivera and Michael Covert and in the MOU for PPH's downtown project. Link to the ERTC Development Dgreement.