A Forum For Misinformation

I see that the Saddleback Valley News has chosen to provide Barbara Casserly a forum (Guest View, Nov. 18) to provide misinformation to the community. It is very simple - the city did not get the state grant for a joint-use gymnasium at Newhart. The city has many longer-term priorities for its limited budget funds - such as expansion of the Norman P. Murray Community and Senior Center.

It is a Capistrano Unified School District issue to build facilities on a CUSD campus, not an issue for the city of Mission Viejo. CUSD has chosen to spend more than $4 million on artificial football fields before considering classrooms or even a gym. That is one of the reasons the CUSD Board of Trustees may be recalled in the near future.

I personally know that a considerable number of editorials and information have been provided to the SVN that the newspaper has chosen to ignore, and it now provides Ms. Casserly with a forum to promote misinformation. Do any readers ever recall - as Ms. Casserly claimed in her column in SVN - Frank Ury stating he wants to "punish CUSD" for various reasons? I have never heard those words from Frank Ury. Sorry, Ms. Casserly, but you are wrong - again!

Joe Holtzman
Mission Viejo