EASTSIDE MULLS COST OF CAMPUS PORTABLE FACILITY OUT OF FAVOR.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - Eastside Union School District trustees may build a permanent school rather than a temporary campus of portable classrooms for the district's next elementary school elementary school: see school. . The district originally planned to use portable classrooms for Tierra Bonita Bonita (Spanish and Portuguese for "beautiful") is the name of:
``We are putting it right in the heart of the community,'' trustee Charles Cooke said. ``Putting all those boxes in beside your house, is that what you want?'' The board at last week's meeting discussed building options with consultants. Trustees indicated they favored a permanent campus. Building a permanent school would cost more, about $10 million versus $4.6 million to install portables. The district, however, still has money from a 1997 bond measure that could be used for its portion of the cost. The board in January 2002 approved a five-year facilities plan that called for a temporary Tierra Bonita North campus at 40th Street East and Avenue J-8 on 10 acres the district purchased from the city. District officials decided in November to sell the parcel back to the city, saying the site had no infrastructure and that they preferred having a site closer to the center of the district's population. Having a school nearer to students' homes would create what the superintendent has called a ``walk-in walk-in A new brokerage customer who simply walks into the office. Although walk-ins are generally assigned to brokers, they have the right to specify a preferred broker. school'' and cut down on transportation costs. The district is now looking at a 12 1/2-acre site near 27th Street East and Avenue J-4. ``A temporary school in the community is never beautiful. It's expensive. If you change it, it's expensive,'' Superintendent Colleen col·leen n. An Irish girl. [Irish Gaelic cailín, diminutive of caile, girl, from Old Irish. Larson said. ``(A permanent school) will be a nice legacy for the community.'' District officials also said that once Tierra Bonita North is built in two years, there will be a need for another elementary campus, which probably would be paid for with ``hardship'' funding from the state. ``When Tierra Bonita North is built, it will be full,'' said Mike Wagenleitner, 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. of business services. ``We are anticipating the district will continue to grow. We will need, by the time Tierra Bonita North is built, another school.'' Tierra Bonita School, near 27th Street East and Lancaster Boulevard, currently is split into north and south campuses. Tierra Bonita opened in 1991 to accommodate youngsters living in housing tracts that sprang up during the late 1980s in east Lancaster. The school was split in 1997 to help alleviate Alleviate To make something easier to be endured. Mentioned in: Kinesiology, Applied congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. from parents dropping off and picking up their children, to make administration easier and to deal with overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. . Eastside voters approved a $15.5 million school construction bond measure in November 1997, adding $32 per $100,000 assessed value to property owners' annual tax bills. The bond revenue was used to build the $9.5 million Cole Middle School at Avenue I and 30th Street East and modernize mod·ern·ize v. mo·dern·ized, mo·dern·iz·ing, mo·dern·iz·es v.tr. To make modern in appearance, style, or character; update. v.intr. To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style. Eastside Elementary School. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 Karen.Maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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