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December 18, 2025 at 6:00pm PST
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Please continue to engage with the community and follow through when you say you will respond 'later.' Investing in quick and less expensive solutions that can have immediate impact in classrooms is not something that takes feasibility studies and a lot of time to analyze since you already have data from your passive cooling pilot project in 2022. Please systematize the info Sequoia has already collected to pass on to all schools and take action this summer 2026.
I have 2 students at Montera Middle School. While I support the district’s focus on climate equity for schools facing high environmental risks, we must recognize that climate change creates a universal safety crisis for all OUSD students. I urge the Board to prioritize broad, district-wide cooling measures. Low-cost, passive solutions—such as the UV-reflecting window clings and other passive cooling measures like ceiling fans—are proven, cost-effective methods that mitigate heat in our aging infrastructure. The data gathered from Sequoia's pilot program confirms these interventions work, making the school environment safer for students and staff and more conducive to learning. We recommend the Board invest in these immediate cooling measures across all school sites to ensure a safe learning environment for every student and safe working conditions for our teachers, administrators and staff.
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I am in support of the facilities master plan, but want to encourage the board to consider low cost solutions across all OUSD schools to address climate issues. Sequoia Elementary has done a great job in working with parents to create low cost-high impact solutions to our classrooms such as installing UV reflecting window clings. These have reduced the temperatures in our classrooms making the learning environment much more tolerable for students and teachers in the hotter months. This and other ideas are on the website. www.cooltheschools.org
Out of $11M identified in remaining Measure Y bond funds, there are approx $3M-$4M to address issues raised in the Facilities Master Plan.
I am advocating that the Board prioritize immediate, low-cost and high-impact work this summer as laid out on www.cooltheschools.org. I recommend that the Board focus broadly to address climate across all schools by investing in UV reflecting window clings (what Sequoia Elementary recently installed in our south facing classrooms), and then add other passive measures like ceiling fans, which are proven to be lower cost and effective solutions from a pilot program the district conducted at other schools as well as what our data shows at Sequoia in the last several months.
I support a facilities master plan, but the board should implement low effort, high impact strategies in their roadmap to quickly adapt to clear heat mitigation need across all schools sooner. There is no time to wait for long term ranking of priorities with constantly shrinking budgets and competing commitments. Sequoia Elementary has modeled how Cool the School ideas can positively engage community, to add purpose and value to these measures. What can the board do to proactively support cool schools at all facilities for optimal learning environments?