Re “LaRose Is Confident Field Will Be Ready by Opening Game”
[img]1551|right|Superintendent LaRose||no_popup[/img]What problem?
None in sight.
Glancing ahead to September, Supt. Dave LaRose says the most imposing challenges to overcome in assuring that Helms Field will be ready for Culver City High School’s football opener are the timeline and coordinating multi-pronged projects.
After reflecting, though, the Super said that the strongest challenges already had been met and conquered before last week’s renovation groundbreaking.
“How do we wrap our heads around everything that has been talked about for multiple years. What’s the scope? Who is going to do it? What about this interest – won’t it conflict with that interest?
Mr. LaRose’s voice gained in speed and steam.
“To make the progress we have made, to be already deeply immersed in the Robert Frost (Auditorium) feasibility study, to have already initiated the steps to have the solar panels project kicked off and moving ahead…
“Just in terms of that coordination, that communication, engaging in informing the community, getting people excited about what’s the scope, about financing, to be able to establish what we currently have and how do we wisely invest that in Phase One?”
You can tell the Superintendent, the example-setting leader, is the most engaged and excited of all.
After years of delay, what was the catalyst? What changed to ignite the series of upgrading projects?
“A couple of different points,” Mr. LaRose said. “Obviously, important decisions had been made, conceptually, by the School Board. That gave us a good framework to work with. I was continuing to narrow the focus, becoming specific on not only what were the targeted projects but what was our capacity to invest?
“Some of the projects and goals were inclusive of potential state monies. Also, we might qualify for certain incentive money. Once we started to identify that an objective may not be likely, or it would be years out, we became more focused on what resources do we have? What could we do with them?”
That was just a temporary conundrum, Mr. LaRose said.
(To be continued)
