Battling the perennially dirty air that flows from the nearby 405 Freeway, spilling inevitably onto the vulnerable campus of El Marino Language School, a group of parents is pressing for more aggressive remedies than presently are being offered.
Clean Air: El Marino represents parents and teachers seeking, somehow, to purify the campus environment for their children.
Relief may be on the way.
“I have been associated with the El Marino Clean Air group for years, and we are in the process of providing air filters for their classrooms,”d money says School Board President Nancy Goldberg.
“They are asking that, before all of (last year’s) bond money is allocated, that we consider putting in air conditioning along with the air filters.”
The request is parked in a netherland while the School District determines how it will be apportioning the opening round of bond monies.
“Part of the problem,” said Ms. Goldberg, “is that we are just now getting our bond projections. We never have said we would or wouldn’t put in air conditioning.”
While the School Board, in consultation with District officials and activist parents figure out the spending priorities, in Ms. Goldberg’s view, the inquiring parents went away happy from this week’s meeting.
“We are trying desperately to keep everything transparent and open,” she said. “We don’t want the lines of communication to go down. Everybody made up nicely Tuesday night.”
Ms. Goldberg credited Mike Reynolds, assistant superintendent/business, and Supt. Dave LaRose with being the principal mollifiers. “They said there are no closed issues at this point,” the president said.
She cautioned that a resolution likely is farther off than it may appear. “Sometimes people think that when everybody is in agreement, it is full-speed ahead,” Ms. Goldberg said. “That is not the way it works.”
