Excerpts from the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian

Feb. 23, 2000

According to PVUSD Superintendent John Casey, moving facilities more to the North as the draft suggests, would take them out of the area previously evaluated and approved by the state Aeronautics Program.

``I doubt if we'd get approval (if a new aeronautics evaluation were required),'' he said.

To keep the facilities within the area previously evaluated and within the area allowed by the modifications would require a smaller school site than planned -- approximately 30 acres instead of 55, according to Casey.

Feb.26,2000

One condition requires the development area to be located farther from existing protected wetlands than the district had planned. That may push the school's foot print to the north, closer to the airport and into areas that were not previously evaluated by state aeronautics experts. PVUSD Superintendent John Casey has expressed concern that a new evaluation may doom the project.

March 3, 2000

``We're disapointed in the report,'' said John Casey, Superintendent of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, ``Because, they've pushed us to a part of the site that was disaproved (due to airport safety concerns) in 1987. They haven't enabled us to build a school.''