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Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2009
Letter: Litany of missteps
Editor: Since about 2002, the Merced County Housing Authority has encumbered upwards of $17 million for the “immediate” renovation of Planada’s farmworker housing.
Subsequent changes in management and a whole litany of missteps, inactions and political intrigue have left Planada with 88 fewer houses for farmworkers and nothing on the ground.
Last year, several portable classroom buildings and playground equipment were installed next to Plainsburg Road about one mile north of town, which remain entirely unused by Head Start for the last 18 months.
This week, the Stanislaus County Office of Education, which funded the Head Start “portables” and infrastructure on the county Housing Authority property, will petition the Planning Commission to revoke the conditions of approval imposed last year by the Board of Supervisors.
Many residents of Planada would like to encourage SCOE to dissociate Head Start from the Housing Authority project, and move its much needed portable facility to the center of Planada where foot traffic to and from it won’t offer such clear and present danger to the children it was meant to serve.
BRYANT OWENS
Plainsburg
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