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L.A. Unified facilities chief was a key player in the school district's $20 billion school construction program.Departure of LA Unified school construction chief causes concern.

10-26-2009

By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/KPCC

Guy Mehula, the chief of the Los Angeles Unified School District's highly successful school construction program, has retired. A decade ago, many critics considered the program incompetent after it botched construction of a massive new school. The school district hired Mehula and other retired U.S. Navy officers with construction expertise to turn the division around. Fed by $20 billion in voter approved bonds, the division's gone on to build scores of new campuses and has garnered dozens of construction industry and design awards. Observers don’t think Mehula's departure bodes well for the future of L.A. Unified’s construction program. (more...)

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