FLOODING RELIEF RAINY-DAY SHUTTLES WILL BUS SCHOOLKIDS.Byline: Erik N. Nelson Staff Writer SUN VALLEY - It may be Sun Valley most of the year, but when it rains, its more like Highwater Gulch for hundreds of schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school who have to wade through rushing torrents separating them from Arminta, Camellia camellia (kəmēl`yə) [for G. J. Kamel, a Moravian Jesuit missionary], any plant of the genus Camellia in the tea family, evergreen shrubs or small trees native to Asia but now cultivated extensively in warm climates and in and Roscoe elementary schools and Sun Valley Middle School Sun Valley Middle School is located in Sun Valley, a section of Los Angeles, California, and is part of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In April 1948, school officials announced that "the most charming of all the new junior high schools" in the Los Angeles system would . On Monday, the region's top elected officials visited Sun Valley Middle to announce at least temporary relief for the students' soggy commutes. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. , City Councilman Alex Padilla Alex Padilla is a politician in California. He was elected as the State Senator for the 20th District of California in November 2006 and was inaugurated in early December. In order to enter the Senate he had to resign as Councilman for the 7th District on the Los Angeles City and Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. board member David Tokofsky announced that a fleet of about a dozen shuttle buses would be picking up the elementary school children. Meanwhile, a local sand gravel company, Vulcan Materials, is donating nearly 400 tons of asphalt, sand and gravel for a raised driveway to get parents' cars across an area that floods. Students previously had to cross the area on foot. Tokofsky said the shuttle buses cost the school district about $60,000 but said the district will come out ahead. ``We know that during these two months, these schools lose about $150,000 minimum from the state,'' Tokofsky said, referring to state education funding that is tied to the number of days children attend school. Leslie Mylius, spokeswoman for the environmental group Tree People, said the Sun Valley Watershed Stakeholders Group, which includes city and county officials, is planning more permanent remedies for the area's chronic flooding problems. Rather than build a concrete storm drain as has been done in most other city neighborhoods, the group will attempt to find environmentally friendlier ways to control floodwaters. Such methods include possible use of part of Vulcan's more than 300 acres as a catch basin from which water will have a chance to seep into the ground and recharge local groundwater. ``It's not a total solution, but it can definitely help mitigate the problem,'' said Yaroslavsky spokesman Joel Bellman. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Sun Valley Middle School's new raised driveway is one district effort to improve schoolchildren's commute in wet weather. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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