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Friday Deadline for Applicants to Serve on Pasadena Unified’s 7-11 Committee

Committee will decide fate of two school properties

Published on Thursday, January 5, 2017 | 5:56 am
 

The Pasadena Unified School District is looking for a few good people to help the District decide what to do with two school properties no longer needed as the size of the public school student population continues to shrink.

Applicants are being sought by the Pasadena Unified to serve on its 7-11 Committee, now being formed to advise the Board of Education on the disposition of two properties — the former Edison and Burbank Elementary Schools. The deadline for committee applicants is January 6.

The ‘“7-11 Committee” is so named because, according to a district announcement, State law requires that the advisory group be composed of not less than seven and no more than 11 members, and must be representative of specific groups in the community, including parents of students, the business community, landowners or renters, teachers, and administrators.

As the schools are no longer needed for the District, the committee will help determine whether they should be designated as surplus, because they will not be needed for school purposes. The Committee will then establish a priority list for the use of the properties, provide community input on possible new uses for the properties and then forward its recommendations to the Board of Education for consideration and approval.

The Committee is expected to meet four times through April 2017.

While schools properties can be declared as surplus and sold or re-purposed , they can also return to active service as school campuses. Nearly a year ago, the PUSD Board of Education voted to rescind its previous declaration of the San Rafael Elementary School as surplus, and subsequently authorized staff to move forward with modernization of the site.

According to Mercy Santoro, PUSD associate superintendent for school services for the PUSD, Linda Vista was one of several schools which had closed over the last decade because of dramatically declining enrollments.

Santoro said in November that the PUSD board will “look a little more closely at what the opportunities are at Linda Vista, because the San Rafael school is at capacity. It’s a school of choice, and people are applying from all over the district to attend that school, and it always fills up, we never have enough spots available.”

The District is seeking applications from residents who live within the district’s boundaries, or the cities of Pasadena, Sierra Madre, and Altadena. To be considered for membership on a voluntary basis only, applicants must live within Pasadena Unified School District boundaries, but cannot live or own property within 500 feet of the properties, according to the PUSD announcement posted on its website.

Interested community members may complete the application and submit a brief statement regarding their interest in participating on the committee. That announcement also added that additional background or information regarding experience “will assist the committee” in making its selections.

Applications may be completed online at www.measurett.org,or sent by mail to 740 Woodbury Rd. Pasadena, CA, 91103, to the attention of Jessica Frazier.

Applicants may also contact Frazier at frazier.jessica@pusd.us.

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