About Town – FRIDAY, 6/28/24
As you undoubtedly heard, Delta College trustees are planning to take another run at your wallet, putting a $598 million bond measure on the November ballot. The college claims it will cost the average property owner about $49 a year. Trustees say the money will be used to fix “old plumbing, repairing leaky roofs, (upgrade) classrooms and labs, and (improve) student safety.” It was in 2004 that Delta put Measure L before voters, seeking approval to sell a $250-million bond. It passed with no small help from Lodi voters and officials, who promoted the measure on the promise by trustees at the time that a satellite campus would be built in Lodi. The Lodi campus never got built and city officials felt defrauded, saying, “never again.” In 2022 Delta trustees sold at a loss 141 acres of land near Galt for $1.34 million. The property was purchased for $2 million as a potential site for a new campus. Now 20 years later, it’s a whole new board of trustees and many of the former Lodi proponents have retired or died. There is apparently no new promise to build a Lodi campus if the bond measure passes. As a consolation, Delta offers a few classes at the WOW museum downtown.
LET’S CELEBRATE: The grand re-opening of Lodi Lake is scheduled for July 4, but
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