Staff and Community Meetings
Section Four
C o m m u n i t y O u t r e a c h
Livingston Union School District | Facilities Master Plan
Staff and Community Meetings
Process
To provide a transparent process for gathering information, a set of community and staff meetings were held. Two meetings were held at each school site, one for the Staff and the other for the Community.
The District notified the community of the Facilities Master Plan effort and the planned community meetings in the“ Connect with LUSD” newsletter. The schools sent handouts home with the students, and posted flyers on the campuses. The school staff also notified parents of the community meetings at the back-to-school nights. The turnout for the community meetings was light, however it was determined to be normal for these types of facility planning meetings regionally. No single meeting hosted more than 20 participants. Because the rooms were not packed, the participants felt like they could have a voice, and most all shared their thoughts, concerns and wishes. The feedback was rich in content.
To start out the meetings, Superintendent Andres Zamora reviewed the purpose and the goal for a Facilities Master Plan, and reviewed the Board Priorities and the Superintendent’ s Goals. Andres introduced Architect Mike Fennacy of Darden Architects. Mike reviewed that Darden Architects has been practicing in K-12 Educational Facilities for over 50 years, and that their firm has succesfully conducted numerous Facilities Master Plans. Mike talked about the process of walking and reviewing the school conditions, and ended his introduction by reviewing the Principals Priorities for the school. Mike referred to the Board Priorities and the Superintendent’ s Goals, and left the Principals Priorities up on a projection screen( in both Spanish and English), and then asked the Staff and Community members to voice their input and / or affirm what had been pointed out.
The meetings occurred on the following dates and locations. Staff meetings started at 3:30 pm, after school was out for the day. The community meetings started at 6:00 pm, after most parents were back from work:
September 7, 2016 September 13, 2016 September 14, 2016 September 15, 2016
Selma Herndon Elementary School Campus Park Elementary School Yamato Colony Elementary School Livingston Middle School
Preparing the Surveys at the Selma Herndon Community Meeting
In these meetings, a survey was passed out to all who attended. The data and analysis from the surveys is included in the following pages.
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