A senior Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) administrator told its science and technology academy’s board of directors a proposed $134 million high school expansion project has been stalled since last June, according to documents obtained by The Riverside Record.
According to minutes from a January 21 meeting of the Riverside STEM Academy Foundation Board of Director meeting, Assistant Superintendent Orin Williams said the project was “in limbo” due to a communication breakdown between RUSD and the University of California, Riverside (UCR), which was partnering with the district on the project.
“He explained that all the necessary documents from [RUSD] were completed and submitted to UCR,” the foundation’s secretary wrote in the minutes. “But UCR held them back from the July UC Regents meeting due to the arrival of a new chancellor that month.”…