DISTRICT EAGER TO SELL UNNEEDED CAFETERIA.Byline: Sue Doyle Staff Writer VALENCIA - It's been more than a year since lunch was last served inside the portable school cafeteria, and now some parents want the building gone. The gray structure has sat among red swing sets and slides on the colorful playground of Meadows Elementary School elementary school: see school. since December 2003, when the K-6 facility began a $6 million modernization project. About a year and one revamped cafeteria later, construction was completed. But the 48-foot-by-60-foot building has remained. Newhall School District The Newhall School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves the Valencia and Newhall communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California, as well as the Stevenson Ranch community in unincorporated Los Angeles County. officials are trying to sell it, but so far haven't had much luck. Parents are getting impatient. ``Get rid of the dang thing,'' Gina Langdale said Tuesday after dropping off her child at school. The 35-year-old Valencia woman said the district is using the playground for storage by leaving the building on the school site. Word is spreading among parents to call the district office and tell officials it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to give the unused facility the heave-ho, so the school's 716 pupils can take back their playground. Julie Husman did just that. Calling the building an eyesore eye·sore n. Something, such as a distressed building, that is unpleasant or offensive to view. eyesore Noun something very ugly Noun 1. , the 40-year-old Valencia mother said she called the district and urged officials to get rid of it. She said the building obstructs her view when she drops off her children at school, because they have to walk around it to get to class. ``You can't see through it, so you can't see your kids on the other side,'' Husman said. Those days may be coming to an end. One potential buyer is coming back for a second look, said Mike Clear, assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. for business services. Clear said the district has been trying to sell the building to other school districts and community colleges. He would not disclose the asking price. The building, with a full kitchen and air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. , will stay put until it's sold, and when that happens, the buyers will pay for the move, Clear said. ``We'd like it to go away, too,'' Clear said. ``Unfortunately we've had a hard time selling it.'' The blue-trimmed building was at the former Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. North campus before arriving at Meadows, where it's also been used for meetings and as a multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective room, Principal Peggy O'Brien said. Portable buildings sit on the other side of the school's campus and are home to some fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade classes. Those buildings were painted to match the school and blend into the Fedala Road neighborhood of tidy single-family homes. O'Brien wasn't aware of complaints made to the district about the building and had thought parents were being patient. Some parents, such as Ellen Fagan, don't mind the building on the playground. ``They usually stay on top of this stuff as well they can,'' said the 44-year-old Fagan. ``We're not the type to micromanage micromanage Administration A popular term for excess oversight of lower management by upper management the school.'' Sue Doyle,(661) 257-5254 sue.doyle(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Youngsters make their way past a portable multipurpose room that used to serve as the cafeteria at Meadows Elementary School in Valencia. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer |
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