Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District Committee Data

Here is some information sent to the 7-11 committee members.

05-21-04 Charles Brink.

The committee, under the direction of Dr. Wagner, is operating under the assumption that the surplus property has already been determined to be the Acton School.

The entire purpose of the 7-11 committee under the Educational Code is to determine which property in the district is surplus. The hearing on 5-27-05, which is scheduled to take testimony about leasing the property to the Antelope Valley and then to report to our board on 6-10-05, is a waste of time because the Antelope Valley College must decide by 6-14-04 at their board meeting which one of the three properties they intend to use for a southern campus. The six items listed below can not be resolved in the short time between the meetings

Steve Standefer, the Government Relation Manager for the college, indicated that prior southern branches enrolled over a thousand students. He said the plans for the Acton campus were based on the number of classrooms available and that Acton could accommodate 500 students at a time.

When he was asked where the 500 students would park, he was not aware that there were only two small parking lots.

Additionally, many problems have been ignored such as:

1. Removal and storage of the playground equipment.

2. Paving over the rest of the play area to accommodate parking for the college students.

3. Adding Parking lights

4. The District would have to apply for a waste discharge permit, which would include a clarifier system to prevent the parking lot oil and debris from percolating into the aquifer, which is just a few feet below the ground.

5. An environmental impact report is required, which would be at least a mitigated negative declaration or possibly even a full EIR.

6. Improve Syracuse (street) to at least 64’ wide from its existing 30' right of way from Crown Valley Road to the entrance of the parking area (the playground).

What the 7-11 committee should be doing

The 7-11 committee must meet and determine which properties really are surplus in the community, which includes not only growth information but also the cost of continuing those properties as schools.

Clearly the most wasteful and expensive property in the district is Red Rover site. That property needs to be determined surplus so that the money now wasted there and the planned new expenses to be wasted there can be put back into the education of all students within the district.

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