The Sonoma Valley Unified School District board recently went over the list of Measure E projects with the principals of the district’s schools, and will revisit the list again at its next meeting on Sept. 12.
Measure E is the $120 million general obligation bond the district’s voters approved in November 2016.
The board earlier decided to sell the bonds off in three sales, 2017, 2020 and 2023, instead of four because of the cost escalation by the time the fourth set of bonds is sold.
The district will sell $50 million this year, $40 million in 2020 and $30 million in 2023. The district could have the money from the first bond sale by the end of September.
According to district documentation, the schools and projects include:
• Adele Harrison Middle School: 2017 – Gym, locker room, performing arts ($3.6 million), technology, and shade furniture in the courtyard ($14,300).
• Altimira Middle School: 2017 – All weather track and field ($3.5 million) and bottle filler water fountains ($10,225); 2023 – Administration addition/staff ($851,757) and demo snack bar, covered lunch area ($487,968).
• Dunbar Elementary School: 2017 – Mitigate sound in multipurpose room ($26,800), bathroom improvements ($343,200), new parking lot ($33,462) and septic system ($408,623); 2020 – Add storage and stage to multipurpose room ($1.2 million); 2023 – Reconfigure library/computer lab.
• El Verano Elementary School: 2017 – New multi-use facility ($4.9 million), technology; 2020 – Replace kindergarten ($2.5 million).
• Flowery Elementary School: 2017 – Additional paving at pick-up point ($14,300), additional staff parking ($246,089), PA and phone upgrades (0), modernization of multipurpose room ($600,293), library/computer room upgrades ($201,094), landscaping between wings ($441,094), kindergarten playground improvements ($36,341), additional blacktop ($90,323); 2023 – Track improvements ($695,796).
• Prestwood Elementary School: 2017 – Technology improvements; 2020 – Multipurpose room improvements ($3.7 million), office modernization ($766,838) bottle fillers at drinking fountains ($11,798).
• Sassarini Elementary School: 2017 – Site lighting ($404,733), running circle ($274,560), drinking fountain on playground ($28,600), new benches at playground ($12,870); 2020 – New multipurpose room ($5.1 million).
• Sonoma Valley High School: 2017 – Library improvements ($1.5 million), ag farm improvements ($1.1 million), career tech/shops ($3.5 million), fitness and wellbeing/sports fields ($9.6 million); 2020 – Swimming pool ($7.9 million); 2023 – Science wing mod ($5.9 million), athletic training center ($15 million), Golton Hall facelift ($5 million).
• Sonoma Charter School: 2017 – New classrooms ($3 million); 2023 – New classrooms ($1.9 million).
• Woodland Star Charter School: 2017 – Parking increase ($644,786), new multipurpose room ($3 million); 2020 – New administration/classroom ($4.6 million); 2023 – Exterior lighting.
• Creekside High School: 2017 – Interior walls ($68,461), exterior improvements ($169,276), interior improvements ($300,034).
The district will also spend $500,000 on signage at all sites in 2017; $5 million on furniture ($850,000 in 2017; $1.9 million in 2020 and $2.25 million in 2023); $6 million on technology improvements ($2 million in 2017 and $4 million in 2020); $5 million for deferred maintenance ($2.3 million in 2017, $1.25 million in 2020 and $1 million in 2023); and set aside $15.7 million in contingencies ($6.27 million in 2017; $5,486,250 in 2020 and $3.9 million in 2023).
Contact Bill Hoban at bill.hoban@sonomanews.com
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