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Belmont, Los Angeles' Most Expensive School - and Built Over a Toxic Dump - is Demolished
Half a billion dollars of taxpayer money goes down the drain for a school that was never opened. If I lived in California I'd be angry. Very angry. Betsy Combier ![]()
INTERNET EXCLUSIVE
LAUSD's $238 MILLION BELMONT DEMOLISHED VIDEO ON INTERNET at www.full disclosure.net Full Disclosure series on Belmont LINK Los Angeles, CA In late December 2004 the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) began demolishing approximately one third of the new and never occupied Belmont High School campus which has cost taxpayers $238 million to build with another $110 million for partial demolition and reconstruction. The demolition of Belmont went virtually unnoticed by the Los Angeles news media and the community because it took place just a few days before Christmas when most people were preoccupied wrapping holiday gifts and attending to activities of the season. The LAUSD Facilities Division refused the FULL DISCLOSURE NETWORK requests to gain access to the site to videotape the demolition activity. The entire site was blocked off to the public view by chain link fences covered with green tarp and topped with barbed wire-the full perimeter. Some of demolished buildings were built atop an earthquake fault on the 35-acre site in downtown Los Angeles, formerly known as the Los Angeles Oil Field, which is plagued with toxic hazards such as methane gas and hydrogen sulfide. However, the Full Disclosure Cable Television Network was able to shoot aerial video footage of the demolition and will begin showing an exclusive five-minute video, of the destruction of the controversial Belmont High School buildings starting Wednesday, January 19, 2005. Watch the full interview now via streaming video FREE for thirty days. Experts estimate that with the cost to remediate the toxic hazards, cost overruns and change orders, the final cost of Belmont (renamed Vista Hermosa) could come to half a billion dollars. VIDEO ON INTERNET LAUSD's Belmont, the most expensive school ever built, Combines ENRON and LOVE CANAL Full Disclosure 'Best of Belmont' Video The Belmont Learning Center in Los Angeles: The Most Expensive Public School in America Belmont Learning Complex: All That Money To Build a School Over a Toxic Dump Candidates - and Educrats - Have a Legal Right to Lie to Voters |