T.-3 20-1090 A discussion by the Board of Education, with documents, of a recommendation from its Facilities Committee, that the Board authorize the placing on the November 3, 2020 General Election Ballot a $735 Million Dollar General Obligation Bond to continue meeting the more than $3 billion physical infrastructure and facilities needs for District's K-12 Pupils and, if so, instruct the Superintendent of Schools and/or the General Counsel to prepare formal documents for the Calling of Said Election at a Special Meeting to be held Monday, June 29, 2020.
My name is Dr. G.T. Reyes, and I am an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at CSU East Bay, as well as the proud parent of 2 children at Melrose Leadership Academy (MLA). I am submitting my comment for item in support of MLA remaining as a school to be included on the bond measure for physical infrastructure. The school community -- its leadership, staff, students, and families -- is one that has been continuously pushing itself to self-actualize into its best self. One key area that stands in the way for MLA becoming what it can become are the facilities. The Maxwell Park site is older and requires renovation. Additionally, the number of families that fill up the school has outgrown the capacity of the existing site. As such, MLA needs additional space to be constructed. I greatly urge the Board to continue a strong school such as MLA by allowing it to remain on the bond measure.
This bond will help ease overcrowding at CCPA and will help better accommodate our students and community by providing greater resources and learning spaces. I strongly support his bond and I urge all of you to support it as well.
I am a teacher at CCPA for 11 years. I am a mother of OUSD students who have gone through over 4 years to see the Glenview campus be rebuilt. At CCPA, we don't have that kind of time. We took a chance and decided to add to our school and increase capacity for the surrounding neighborhood (as a school that truly serves the students AND gets results). We will run out of space in two years! We need a building for our students, who deserve it. We don't have four years or another campus to teach at. I know how long things take in OUSD and we need to work hard to give our students a proper classroom. We need this bond money or our students will be learning on the streets!
I am a teacher at MLA in support of the using bond funds to update the facilities at MLA. Our Maxwell Park campus is in dire need of safety improvements. We need a new boiler badly so that our classrooms are not inconsistently warm in the winter. We need a solution to our classrooms that reach over 95 degrees in the warmer months. Our yard has no shade and no water, making it unsafe to spend much time there for recess and PE, though we have no gym or field. Please prioritize these upgrades as well as building new facilities so that our entire school community can return to being on one campus.
Hello my kids attend to MLA; we love our school but we need the district support to make a lot of improvements needed at the campus; please consider this project our kids really deserve a better conditions to learn.
Funding for MLA and Maxwell Park vía theGOB Bond to prioritize renovation to the existing Maxwell Park campus and addition of a new structure on the Maxwell site to bring our entire community back onto one campus
I support MLA being included in a Facilities Bond measure. Being able to keep our innovative TK-8 school on one campus would increase family retention, create a cohesive experience for kids, and allow us to save money on redundancies across campuses.
My name is Dr. Ursula Aldana and I am a resident and parent of two school aged children in OUSD. I strongly urge the support of this facilities bond and more specifically, the prioritization of Melrose Leadership Academy. The structural conditions at MLA are dilapidated and currently, parts of the campus and particular facilities needs, preclude students and families from being feeling safe on the campus. OUSD has already identified MLA as a high need site for facilities repair. Our school is growing in size and continues to draw students from the neighborhood and beyond. The school is spread across two campuses that each require repair. The students and staff at MLA have presented data to the Board that clearly shows how these failing structural conditions impede learning at our site. You have the opportunity to show the community and MLA/OUSD students that you want to invest in education and make critical changes that positively impact the learning environment. Thank you.
Hello, I am a parent of a child at Melrose Leadership Academy (MLA). I strongly support the placement of this bond measure on the ballot, and keeping MLA on the project list. The teachers at MLA have worked tirelessly to provide an outstanding educational environment, but they do so in a completely dilapidated environment that stresses and distracts the kids without providing critically needed facilities for their physical well being. MLA has been rated as severely requiring facility upgrades. Besides lack of seismic safety, classrooms get overheated, electrical power fails, the "playgrounds" are mostly a barren wasteland, and there are no gym facilities, to just name a few issues. I sincerely hope that we can invest further in this school that has provided much needed innovation and hope to students in OUSD. Thank you.
Our daughter has attended Melrose Leadership Academy for the past eight years and we have watched it grow and flourish thanks to the deep dedication and participation of its teachers, staff, parent, and student community. However, we have outgrown our school site which was constructed many decades ago and does not meet the needs of its current student population. We urge you to include upgrades to our site as part of the Facilities Bond Proposal and to prioritize renovation to the existing Maxwell Park campus and a addition of a new structure on the Maxwell site to bring our entire community back onto one campus.
I'm a Melrose Leadership Academy parent of an incoming 4th grader, and I urge you to support the MLA proposed renovation for $49.5 million and new structure on our Maxwell site. I also encourage you to build the Alternative Education Hub at 1025 Second Ave. instead of privatizing that site. This would center the needs of Black and Brown youth on a site accessible to youth and near public transit. Thank you.
I support funds devoted to improving the bond for making essential improvements to the Maxwell facility of Melrose Leadership Academy. MLA requires sufficient structures to house our growing student body as well as to improvements to the existing buildings and grounds. These young children need adequate space and reasonable environmental conditions (such as basic air conditioning, filtration systems and access to water and shade outside) in order to properly learn; workarounds are folly. Children cannot learn when they cannot withstand inhumane temperatures poor air quality, and lack of water.
Support this measure- Melrose leadership academy is Model ethnically socially and Culturally diverse thriving community and meeting the facility needs of this school will provide a benefit to the citizens of Oakland in the present and in the future.
I am a parent of a child at Melrose Leadership Academy and support making MLA a priority on the bond project list. Our facilities are old and not all conducive to learning. Our classrooms reach over 110 degrees; it is too hot to learn. We don't have any athletic facilities such as a field or a gym. Our students don't have access to water or shade when playing on the yard. Our middle schoolers don't have science labs or lockers. The District has said we need major renovations just to make our campus safe to learn.
Please give our school community the resources we need.
As an MLA teacher, I am in full support of getting this bond measure on the ballot. I also support $49.5 million in funding to make MLA a school where every one of its students thrives. The Maxwell building is in desperate need of repairs and renovations to make sure classrooms have a comfortable temperature to learn in, that students have shade and fields to play sports on safely, and new construction to bring our whole community together on one campus. We are a beautiful and diverse community that is in high demand for Oakland families. With so many schools that need immediate repairs to provide safe and comfortable learning environments for all students, OUSD needs more funding to cover these costs.
My name is Dr. G.T. Reyes, and I am an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at CSU East Bay, as well as the proud parent of 2 children at Melrose Leadership Academy (MLA). I am submitting my comment for item in support of MLA remaining as a school to be included on the bond measure for physical infrastructure. The school community -- its leadership, staff, students, and families -- is one that has been continuously pushing itself to self-actualize into its best self. One key area that stands in the way for MLA becoming what it can become are the facilities. The Maxwell Park site is older and requires renovation. Additionally, the number of families that fill up the school has outgrown the capacity of the existing site. As such, MLA needs additional space to be constructed. I greatly urge the Board to continue a strong school such as MLA by allowing it to remain on the bond measure.
My kids attend Melrose Leadership Academy, we love our school, and I fully support this bond.
We need money for Melrose Leadership Academy growth
This bond will help ease overcrowding at CCPA and will help better accommodate our students and community by providing greater resources and learning spaces. I strongly support his bond and I urge all of you to support it as well.
I am a teacher at CCPA for 11 years. I am a mother of OUSD students who have gone through over 4 years to see the Glenview campus be rebuilt. At CCPA, we don't have that kind of time. We took a chance and decided to add to our school and increase capacity for the surrounding neighborhood (as a school that truly serves the students AND gets results). We will run out of space in two years! We need a building for our students, who deserve it. We don't have four years or another campus to teach at. I know how long things take in OUSD and we need to work hard to give our students a proper classroom. We need this bond money or our students will be learning on the streets!
I am a teacher at MLA in support of the using bond funds to update the facilities at MLA. Our Maxwell Park campus is in dire need of safety improvements. We need a new boiler badly so that our classrooms are not inconsistently warm in the winter. We need a solution to our classrooms that reach over 95 degrees in the warmer months. Our yard has no shade and no water, making it unsafe to spend much time there for recess and PE, though we have no gym or field. Please prioritize these upgrades as well as building new facilities so that our entire school community can return to being on one campus.
Hello my kids attend to MLA; we love our school but we need the district support to make a lot of improvements needed at the campus; please consider this project our kids really deserve a better conditions to learn.
Funding for MLA and Maxwell Park vía theGOB Bond to prioritize renovation to the existing Maxwell Park campus and addition of a new structure on the Maxwell site to bring our entire community back onto one campus
I support MLA being included in a Facilities Bond measure. Being able to keep our innovative TK-8 school on one campus would increase family retention, create a cohesive experience for kids, and allow us to save money on redundancies across campuses.
My name is Dr. Ursula Aldana and I am a resident and parent of two school aged children in OUSD. I strongly urge the support of this facilities bond and more specifically, the prioritization of Melrose Leadership Academy. The structural conditions at MLA are dilapidated and currently, parts of the campus and particular facilities needs, preclude students and families from being feeling safe on the campus. OUSD has already identified MLA as a high need site for facilities repair. Our school is growing in size and continues to draw students from the neighborhood and beyond. The school is spread across two campuses that each require repair. The students and staff at MLA have presented data to the Board that clearly shows how these failing structural conditions impede learning at our site. You have the opportunity to show the community and MLA/OUSD students that you want to invest in education and make critical changes that positively impact the learning environment. Thank you.
As a parent of student at Melrose Leadership academy, I fully support this bond.
Hello, I am a parent of a child at Melrose Leadership Academy (MLA). I strongly support the placement of this bond measure on the ballot, and keeping MLA on the project list. The teachers at MLA have worked tirelessly to provide an outstanding educational environment, but they do so in a completely dilapidated environment that stresses and distracts the kids without providing critically needed facilities for their physical well being. MLA has been rated as severely requiring facility upgrades. Besides lack of seismic safety, classrooms get overheated, electrical power fails, the "playgrounds" are mostly a barren wasteland, and there are no gym facilities, to just name a few issues. I sincerely hope that we can invest further in this school that has provided much needed innovation and hope to students in OUSD. Thank you.
Our daughter has attended Melrose Leadership Academy for the past eight years and we have watched it grow and flourish thanks to the deep dedication and participation of its teachers, staff, parent, and student community. However, we have outgrown our school site which was constructed many decades ago and does not meet the needs of its current student population. We urge you to include upgrades to our site as part of the Facilities Bond Proposal and to prioritize renovation to the existing Maxwell Park campus and a addition of a new structure on the Maxwell site to bring our entire community back onto one campus.
Quisiera que no nos quiten el dinero del bonus a MLA ya que necesita de muchas cosas nuestra grandiosa escuela
I'm a Melrose Leadership Academy parent of an incoming 4th grader, and I urge you to support the MLA proposed renovation for $49.5 million and new structure on our Maxwell site. I also encourage you to build the Alternative Education Hub at 1025 Second Ave. instead of privatizing that site. This would center the needs of Black and Brown youth on a site accessible to youth and near public transit. Thank you.
Support
I support funds devoted to improving the bond for making essential improvements to the Maxwell facility of Melrose Leadership Academy. MLA requires sufficient structures to house our growing student body as well as to improvements to the existing buildings and grounds. These young children need adequate space and reasonable environmental conditions (such as basic air conditioning, filtration systems and access to water and shade outside) in order to properly learn; workarounds are folly. Children cannot learn when they cannot withstand inhumane temperatures poor air quality, and lack of water.
Support this measure- Melrose leadership academy is Model ethnically socially and Culturally diverse thriving community and meeting the facility needs of this school will provide a benefit to the citizens of Oakland in the present and in the future.
I am a parent of a child at Melrose Leadership Academy and support making MLA a priority on the bond project list. Our facilities are old and not all conducive to learning. Our classrooms reach over 110 degrees; it is too hot to learn. We don't have any athletic facilities such as a field or a gym. Our students don't have access to water or shade when playing on the yard. Our middle schoolers don't have science labs or lockers. The District has said we need major renovations just to make our campus safe to learn.
Please give our school community the resources we need.
As an MLA teacher, I am in full support of getting this bond measure on the ballot. I also support $49.5 million in funding to make MLA a school where every one of its students thrives. The Maxwell building is in desperate need of repairs and renovations to make sure classrooms have a comfortable temperature to learn in, that students have shade and fields to play sports on safely, and new construction to bring our whole community together on one campus. We are a beautiful and diverse community that is in high demand for Oakland families. With so many schools that need immediate repairs to provide safe and comfortable learning environments for all students, OUSD needs more funding to cover these costs.