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What’s up with Main?
I’ve lived off of Serene Drive for 15 years, and Main Avenue has been a potholed-repaired mess for 15 of those years and probably beyond. My question is when are they finally going to repave Main between Monterey Highway and 101. As you know, between 101 and the high school, Main was repaved about two years ago, and its as smooth as a black ribbon. But the rest of Main is an absolute mess. The pavement is uneven. It is becoming dangerous.
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There is good news for Main Avenue drivers. The city has just been waiting on the funding to pave the road.
The initial paving is scheduled to start in two or three months and be finished by summer at the earliest or the end of the year at the latest, according to Mori Struve, the Deputy Director of Public Works.
The initial step will cost about $151,000 and includes the section of Main from Butterfield Boulevard to Calle Mazaton and then from Serene Drive to 101, Struve said.
The second stage will cost about $325,000 and will include the section of road from Calle Mazaton to Serene Drive and Monterey Road to Peak Avenue.
The second half of the paving is scheduled for the 2007-08 fiscal year, Struve said. Money for the repaving will come from a combination of city funds and funds from the State Transportation Program, Struve said.
Money shortage?
“It seems strange to me that Gavilan College is so deficient of money that they have to shut the place down every Friday and curtail, not only classes, but other activities such as swimming and the like. If they are that poor how can they even consider buying property for expansion, when they can’t even keep the school open long enough for the students to get an education?”
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The bulk of Gavilan College’s classes are scheduled Monday through Thursday, but the campus is open on Fridays for some classes and all the offices are open, said Gavilan Spokeswoman Jan Bernstein Chargin. Now that Gavilan is on a block schedule, the majority of classes are Monday and Wednesday or Tuesdays and Thursdays.
“It allows students to save gas by not making the drive everyday,” said Chargin.
Also, Gavilan is looking at adding Friday-only classes in the future.
If a swimming class is scheduled on Fridays the pool is open but since it’s not open to the community, it’s closed when there are no classes.
In reference to Gavilan being in the poorhouse, the land purchase has nothing to do with the college’s fiscal situation. The expansion of the campus was funded by Measure E, a general obligation bond that was approved voters in March 2004.
