New portable classrooms coming to Coast Union, Santa Lucia campuses
A project to replace five portable classroom buildings — four at Coast Union High School and one at Santa Lucia Middle School — is going ahead.
Coast Unified School District board members approved more than $500,000 for the project at their meeting Thursday, Feb. 11.
Staff presented the cost of the project at $440,682, but board member Lee McFarland suggested adding 15 percent to that total to account for contingencies. The board agreed and passed the amended proposal unanimously.
The project, to be completed before the start of the coming school year, includes a new art room at the middle school, complete with new cabinetry, lab tables and chairs. The old art room will be moved to the high school, where it will be used as a transportation office.
Other changes would convert the music room at the back of the Santa Lucia gym into a space for woodshop and introduction to engineering and design. Music instruction would move to Room 9, which is currently used for Spanish classes, and those would, in turn, be moved to the English Language Development classroom.
In other action Thursday, the board:
▪ Postponed until next month a review of the annual Comprehensive School Safety Plans and Districtwide Emergency Response Guide to give school site councils time to review the plans.
▪ Heard an update from Coast Union Principal Jonathan Sison, who announced that Xue DiMaggio would be the school’s valedictorian. Salutatorians will be Alexis Morales, Reagan Kniffen and Kat Cleave. Sison also said the school’s winter formal will be Friday at La Terraza.
▪ Approved general math, general English and software development/cyber security classes for the summer school curriculum at Leffingwell High School.
▪ Heard an update from Santa Lucia Middle School Principal Kyle Martin, who said nine students from the school won top honors at a recent “Math Counts” competition at Cal Poly. In the competition, Martin said, the students competed against schools from across San Luis Obispo County “to solve a series of problems ranging from mathematical scenarios to models, patterns, graphs, etc.” under the direction of math teachers Cyndi Klatt and Kendra Simmons.
Volunteer Mary Fay-Zenk coached the team and organized its participation in the event. Students who participated were competition winner Hannah Chaffin, Emiliano Pena, Ryan Kasper, Ravi Panchal, Aidan Kasper, Jonathan Jewel, Jasmine Pena, Ethan Hoffman and Braiden Beauchene.
This story was originally published February 17, 2016 at 11:09 AM with the headline "New portable classrooms coming to Coast Union, Santa Lucia campuses."