School Building Plan: Measure K

• 
  May 22, 6-7 p.m.
  Community Meeting
  Roosevelt Elementary "Campus Move and Construction Update"
  Location: Roosevelt Multipurpose Room
  
  
• May 23, 6-7 p.m.
  Community Meeting
  Newcomb Academy "Campus Move and Constructions Update"
  Location: Newcomb Auditorium

Measure K is a ballot initiative, approved by 71 percent of voters in November 2008, which makes available $1.2 billion from property taxes to build, renovate and improve schools in the Long Beach Unified School District. The funds come from issuance of a series of bonds to occur four to six times in about ten years.

 

Since the measure was approved, steady progress is being made to reconfigure and rehabilitate Long Beach Unified School District's aging schools. The funds made available by Measure K has been budgeted to address the most critical building needs of the district.

These needs, identified in the Facility Master Plan and Technology Master Plan, were prioritized through a weighing of numerous factors, including regulatory and building code compliance, technology needs, educational program enhancements, enrollment shifts, school site capacity and utilization, condition of existing structures, board recommendations and equity.

Check out the major projects under construction or being planned for the next several years. The first to be built with Measure K funds, Nelson Middle School in Signal Hill, is scheduled to open this fall. McBride High School, the first of a number of small high schools being planned, is under construction, and expected to open in fall 2013. Other Measure K projects in the planning stages include Newcomb Academy, Roosevelt Elementary School and the new swimming pool at Cabrillo High School.

 

Coming further down the line are the conversion of Jordan Freshman Academy to a small high school, building of a small high school on the Browning site, and re-building of Jordan High School.

 

Other Measure K projects include removal of portable structures, installation of new boilers and development of districtwide wireless technology and centralized clocks and security systems.

 

Stay informed about the latest projects by receiving Measure K UPDATES via email.

 

Take a moment to subscribe here to Measure K UPDATES enewsletter.