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"I'm not going to fight it one way or the other," Trustee Ben Cox Jr. said. "Just give her a party and let her go."

"It's a sad thing," Maple said of the superintendent's resignation. "But I'm not angry at her, I'm angry at the situation. I don't think the community treated her right."

"It's your job to somehow let other board members know what you're doing," Cox said to board President Pat Maple, who was present at the State Allocation Board meeting with Hoffman in August.

"You're breeding mistrust in our community and when you breed mistrust, how are you going to pass another bond?"

Maple reiterated something he had said at the previous night's board meeting.
"They have succeeded in spite of us as a community," Maple said, laughing. Lodi News-Sentinel June 10, 2004

"It's unethical to say we're going to build a comprehensive high school," Maple said of the eastside site. "You're going to put a bunch of (expletive deleted) boxes out there."

Maple said that with $39 million, the district can't afford to construct a complete high school with all the typical features a high school has. It would also necessitate portable rather than permanent classrooms, he said.

"That's what a board is for," Maple said. "You can't have mob rule." 3-17-04 Lodi News-Sentinel

Galt High board President Pat Maple didn't welcome the news that the chamber committee had scheduled its own public forum about a school bond.

"I don't know what they're doing; they didn't ask us," Maple said. "It's just one more thing to screw up the process." 3-17-04 Lodi News-Sentinel

The chamber's involvement seems like an attempt to take control of school affairs, Maple said. 3-17-04 Lodi News-Sentinel

"Now they're just bypassing the school board," Maple said of BUGG. "Are you going to go by mob rule? I'm not. I was elected for a reason." 3-17-04 Lodi News-Sentinel

"He's a weasel," Maple said of Silva. "I don't know what he's talking about." 4-14-04 Lodi News-Sentinel

"It was written hurriedly," Roberts said, after the debate had finished. "If I could go back and change it, I would." 2-13-04 Lodi News-Sentinel

"We are very aware of the procedures ... of building a school," Hoffman said. "The district is in the process of going through those procedures." 3-7-04 Stockton Record