The Sonoma Valley Unified School District board will be looking at four projects when it holds a special meeting at 6 p.m. today, Tuesday, Oct. 28.
On the agenda is the Sonoma Valley Trailways project that runs through Flowery Elementary School; the Fifth Street East recycled water project; the Sonoma Valley High School Master Plan; and the Nathanson Creek flood analysis.
School administrators estimate that each of the four items could run between 45 minutes and an hour.
The Sonoma Valley Trailways project will run through Flowery and connect with the trail, when it’s complete. The three-mile-long trail will consist of on-street and off-street connections that runs from Verano Avenue to Agua Caliente Road.
The school district granted the county an easement for the trail through the Sonoma Charter School in 2009.
The segment that will be discussed Tuesday is .11 miles from Depot Road to Larson Park.
Sonoma County Regional Parks is proposing a six-foot tall fence between the school, and the trail and installing a bridge over Pequeno Creek. Regional Parks timeline includes design and engineering from November to February 2015; advertising for bids in March 2015 and start and complete that portion of the trail in the summer of 2015.
Ken Tam is the project manager for Sonoma County Regional Parks.
The Fifth Street East recycled water pipeline project is being proposed by the Sonoma County Water Agency.
Kent Gylfe, with the water agency, made a presentation to the board some months back on the project.
The proposed recycled water project is using reclaimed water from the Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District facility on Eighth Street East. Currently, the pipeline ends at the end of Denmark Street.
The school is looking at using the water for the 12 acres of athletic fields on the at Adele Harrison Middle School, Sonoma Valley High School and Prestwood Elementary School, and is projected to use 47 acre-feet of water annually. An acre-foot of water is 325,853 gallons.
The water agency estimates that the design would be complete by summer 2015; right-of-way and permits in the fall; bid and award the contract in the winter of 2015 and spring of 2016 and construct the project in the summer of 2016.
The Sonoma Valley High School Master Plan process is ongoing. The board will receive a report from QKA, Quatttrocchi Kwok Architects on the process and the progress.
The board will also receive a report on the Nathanson Creek flood reduction project.
Mark Newhouser, from the Sonoma ecology Center, will brief the board.
In September 2005, the district entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Sonoma Ecology Center and the City of Sonoma for the restoration and maintenance of Nathanson Creek. The Ecology Center will ask the board for a letter of approval to proceed with the flood reduction project planning and design along the Nathanson Creek Preserve and Parkway.
If the Ecology Center receives grant funding, it may be necessary to update the MOU with an addendum to cover the proposed work. The district may also be asked to grant a conservation easement for the proposed project area.
Nathanson Creek runs through the high school and Adele Harrison Middle School.
The meeting, which starts at 6 p.m., will be held in the Sonoma Valley High School library, 20000 Broadway.
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