Santa Barbara County, CA November 3, 1998 General
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Sensible Building Plan Plus Fiscal Responsiblity

By John W. Franklin

Candidate for Governing Board Member; Carpinteria Unified School District; Trustee Area 2

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A prioritized and sensible building plan that combines fiscal responsiblity with the reality of the project approval process.
The Toro Canyon site offers the western part of our District its own neighborhood school. For Summerland, it is finally a real school after 35 years in temporary quarters. Despite my opponent's contention, there is no other site in Summerland. This is confirmed by District search, Santa Barbara County's EIR study and confirmation by State Department of Education. Our students deserve what the current Summerland site can't provide; a library, computer lab, cafeteria, parent conference rooms and a real playground facility. Toro Canyon offers all that. It will also serve the surrounding neighborhood with a meeting site facility and an afterschool playground for kids and adults because in Carpinteria/Summerland our schools are the Parks and Recreation Department.

The incumbents' opponents talk about more important building priorities as if they could wave a wand and start them. We are painfully aware of the District's needs. We desperately need a new elementary school on each end of the District. We have acquired the Toro Canyon site, are two years into the process, and expect at least another year before we break ground. We have been looking for two years and now hope we are close to finding a site on the east end but it will be subject to the same time process. We have other critical needs that we can start now and that is why the Middle School renovation and the Memorial Field move have been given priority. Both are important and very inter-related because there is no way to expand Middle School with moving Memorial Field from it. Moving Memorial Field will provide 800 high school students with improved PE facilities and the all weather tract will be used by the entire community.

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