DISTRICT WEB SITE HAS YET TO APPEAR OFFICIALS EXPECT TO BE ONLINE SOON.Byline: Angie Valencia-Martinez Staff Writer SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - A new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. site designed to provide updates on the $145 million bond-funded school construction program in Simi Valley is months behind schedule. The Web site was originally scheduled to be unveiled in October, but because of changes to the bond program, the site has yet to be completed. Lowell Schultze, associate superintendent of business and facilities, said he hopes the site will be ready this week. ``I wanted to make sure we had the most up-to-date information on it,'' he said. Located at simi SIMI Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative SIMI Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet SIMI Students Islamic Movement in India SIMI Society of Irish Motor Industry SIMI Smallholder Irrigation Markets Initiative .linkencounter.com, the site will feature construction schedules for the district's 29 campuses, status of projects and estimated completion dates, budget reports and an electronic newsletter. It will allow parents, teachers and others to learn more about the bond oversight committee, communicate with the panel's members and get answers to the most frequently asked questions relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the building drive. The site, at a cost of $10,000, was designed to offer improved communication with parents, students, staffers and the community regarding the district's plans. The delay is being blamed on cost overruns Noun 1. cost overrun - excess of cost over budget; "the cost overrun necessitated an additional allocation of funds in the budget" cost - the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor , which have forced administrators and school board members to scale back projects and compress the original 10-year construction schedule to six years, with completion by 2010. Because of revisions to the schedule and budget, officials decided to hold off on the Internet project until they knew how to address the projected $60 million shortfall. School board member Carla Kurachi said the yearlong year·long adj. Lasting one year. Adj. 1. yearlong - lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses" long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or project, which will allow local stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. to keep track of their tax dollars, should have been up and running by now. ``We've been trying to get that done for a year,'' she said. ``If the district wanted to see it happen, it would happen. Any time you can get information to the public that they can access, I'm all for that. ``It shouldn't be that difficult to do. It really shouldn't be.'' Angie Valencia-Martinez, (805) 583-7604 angie.valencia(at)dailynews.com |
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