Toxic L.A. School Belmont Is Back On Cable TV Channel 36 Sunday & Monday

Due to popular demand and continuing revelations of methane gas & hydrogen sulfide on new development sites in Los Angeles, the Full Disclosure Network™ is re-running the two-part series entitled, “Belmont: The Black Hole of School Construction” to be featured on L. A. Cable Channel 36 Sunday, July 29th Part-One at 8 p.m. Part-Two at 8:30 p.m. and repeat on Monday; July 30th, Part One at 4 p.m. and Part 2 at 4:30 p.m. Also a free ten minute video on the toxic conditions at Belmont can be seen on the Internet “On Demand” 24/7, as a public service. This series features exclusive video footage of all the major players involved in the planning, development, financing and investigations of the half a billion dollar, notorious Belmont Learning Center, in the L. A. Unified School District, (LAUSD)

• FEATURED IN THE SERIES:
• Steve Cooley , L.A. County District Attorney
• David Cartwright, Sr. Partner O'Melveny & Myers, (former outside legal counsel to LAUSD)
• Jim McConnell, LAUSD Cheif Facilities Executive
• Anthony Patchett, Belmont Prosecutor, Special Asst. D.A. (ret)
• Jerry Thornton, Interim Inspector General
• Don Mullinax, Inspector General L.A. Unified School District
• Roger Carrick. Special Legal Counsel to Inspector General
• Scott Wildman. Former Chairman CA Legislative Audit Committee
• Dominic Shambra, Director Planning & Development LAUSD
• Dr. Kaye Kilburn, USC Keck School of Medicine, Edgington Chair
• Ed Scott, Oil and Gas Expert, Licensed Environmental Assessor
• Michael Schneider, former President California Board of Accountancy
• Tony Beall, Mayor Rancho Santa Margarita, Leader CUSD Recall Trustees Committee

The still incomplete public school is now estimated to have cost almost a half a billion dollars after questionable remediation of toxic gases, seven years of investigations, lawsuits and controversy. When the Los Angeles news media ceased covering the Belmont Learning Center debacle the Full Disclosure Network™ (FDN) jumped at the opportunity to cover the story, on videotape, as a PUBLIC SERVICE. Belmont was only 60% complete and had an estimated cost of $175 million to $228 million at that point.

Most public officials and the news media had pronounced the project a “dead issue". That could not have been farther from the truth. In December of 2004 the Full Disclosure Network™ was the only media to cover the demolition of the brand new and never occupied Belmont school buildings. When LAUSD officials denied FDN access to the site to videotape the demolition, an airplane was rented to capture the costly demolition on tape, noting the dozens of new and unused large airconditioning units also destroyed after having been placed on the roofs by costly helicopters. A one $132 million remediation for methane and hydrogen sulfide gases was planned but it is still uncertain if that has taken place and approval by Department of Toxic Substance Control, State of California was delayed for unknown reasons.

Following the release of this Full Disclosure Network™ 2005 series entitled “Belmont: The Black Hole of School Construction” LAUSD's Jim Mc Connell resigned. As Chief Executive of the Facilities Division Mc Connell was featured in the FDN series saying, “the days of Belmont are over”. However, mistaken he was, as the days of Belmont are still to this day, far from finished.

Here are a few of the revelations in Belmont: The Black Hole of school construction:

• What lawsuit blocked BB Bond funds from being used to build Belmont?
• Why was the site (an old oil field) purchased “as is”?
• How did LAUSD Raise the first $92 million to pay for Belmont?
• Why was construction on Belmont stopped when only 60% complete?
• Who stopped the construction?
• LAUSD had to change State laws to win approval for Belmont, why?

Full Disclosure network™programs are billed as “the news behind the news” for the past fifteen years. In 2002 the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented a public affairs Emmy to host Leslie Dutton for the special series entitled “L. A.’s War Against Terrorism. Featured on over 40 cable systems and the Internet, worldwide on http://www.fulldisclosure.net/, Channels and air times are listed on the website