WHAT THEY’RE SAYING --Tunneling a subway beneath the site of Beverly Hills High School continues to be a dispute among the school district, the city and Metro as legal fees grow.
Half a decade and $10 million into a turf war with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), nerves are beginning to fray in Beverly Hills.
Outside its borders, the fight has cemented the city’s reputation as a player with too much money to spend on a game of “not-in-my-backyard.” But inside Beverly Hills, the board of education is facing the opposite charge — that the fight against Metro is an expensive folly, draining money that ultimately should go to kids.
Since 2010, the city’s board of education has spent prodigiously from a construction bond on an array of geologists, consultants and lawyers attempting to block Metro’s Purple Line from tunneling under Beverly Hills High School.
But the board’s decision to use funds from that bond has become increasingly controversial, as have the suits themselves. (Read the rest.)
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CityWatch
Vol 13 Issue 95
Pub: Nov 24, 2015
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