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Do community demographics
change following joint-use school projects? Gail Goldberg, planning director
for the City of San Diego, answers “You’ve got to revitalize for the
community who lives there. It’s not about gentrifying the neighborhood so
new people can move in.”
Gov. Gray Davis’s
administration “believes passionately in the holistic approach … it is the
only thing that works and it’s the best way to solve problems.” – state
Secretary of Consumer Affairs Aileen Adams
“We need to move forward to
do the planning for another 35 schools, not knowing what the schools will look
like …. The whole process we have to go through to do joint-use doesn’t
facilitate long-term planning.” – Jay Schenirer, Sacramento school board
member
“AB
1481 (would) create the state permit parks program. If Proposition 40 passes,
there will be $260 million to this program … it (would be) the first time
the state has actually said we’re going to help communities build new
parks.” – Assemblyman Dario Frommer
Los Angeles Unified School
District facilities executive Kathi Littman, on her arrival at the district
two years ago: “We were in triage … 15,000 students were bused daily, even
on multi-track calendars and with portables covering playgrounds. We were
beginning to need joint-credentialed bus drivers and teachers, because
students couldn’t get off the bus.”
Littman on converting school
facilities for joint use: “LAUSD can barely keep toilets and athletic fields
operating as it is. Now they want them to be used on nights and weekends? The
state should increase the capacity for multiuse by offering reimbursement for
upfront costs.”
“The business community
will support the removal of barriers (to joint use). Proposition 39 already
made a difference … we need to be efficient. Otherwise voters will stop
approving bonds.” – William Huack, California Business Roundtable
“State standards around
Smart Growth and sustainable communities can be definitively linked in the
bond language.” – Andrew Michael, Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable
Development
Assemblymember Pat Wiggins called the bond "the most important land use
measure this session."
State Senator Dede Alpert said "The School Bond Conference Committee will
continue in business for the rest of the session and welcomes input from
across the state."
Don Attore of the California
Teachers Association suggested involving
teachers and students early on in the planning process, “not when you’re
deciding which colors and which furniture, but when you’re picking out where
to put the walls.”
Rick Simpson, from
Assemblyman Hertzberg’s office said that he "welcomes input from all
parts of the state to incentivize joint-use school siting."
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