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PROGRAM
# 401 and 402
GUEST: Dominic Shambra
TITLE: Former Director of Planning & Development
LAUSD
Taped 7-09-04
According
to Dominic Shambra, former Director of Planning and
Development for the Los Angeles Unified School District,
there was no competitive bidding for the Belmont Learning
Center contract. "It was a request for proposal
and it wasn't one that asked for a bid." In this
Part 1 of a 2 part interview, Shambra told FULL DISCLOSURE
host Leslie Dutton about his role. "I was one of
five on the committee that recommended (the developer/contractor)
to the Board of Education." "My responsibility
was to coordinate for the District those activities
which were done by lawyers, the business people."
And, in response to his battles with the oversight committee
members, Shambra said he wore a railroad engineer's
cap to one meeting "because they said I was railroading
this whole project. We were very strong and we were
very aggressive and we stood up for what we believed."
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PROPAGANDA ON BELMONT? QUAKE FAULT & CONFLICTS
Part 2
Taped 7-09-04
Critical
reports on the Belmont Learning Center were labeled
as “Propaganda” by Dominic Shambra , former
Director of Planning & Development for the LAUSD.
On this Part 2 of the FULL DISCLOSURE interview Shambra
singled out the Internal Revenue Service” taxability
letter", David Koff of the Hotel & Restaurant
workers union and Scott Wildman, Chair of the California
Joint Legislative Audit Committee as having used “the
same type of propaganda.” As for the allegations
of conflict of interest by LAUSD outside legal counsel
David Cartwright and his law firm O’Melveny &
Myers, Shambra said “I trusted them completely…”
“We were fully aware . In fact, I can actually
say that Dave was probably the toughest of the negotiators
on Kajima,” (the developer who was also a client
of O’Melveny & Myers). With regard to the earthquake
fault over which the Belmont school project was built,
Shambra said, “we actually knew that there was
an earthquake fault.” “The law says if it’s
an active fault, recognized fault, you cannot build
the building on top of that fault. That’s an inactive
fault. So they don’t have to tear down those buildings.”
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