Shoreline School Board Meeting 12-10-12

Devon Vose Rickabaugh

Shoreline School Board Meeting 12-10-12

By Devon Vose Rickabaugh

Shoreline PTA Council is encouraging District parents to become both educated and engaged during this coming legislative session through the “Take 5 For KIDS” project with a PTA goal of collecting 600 cards and drawings from across the district to be sent to legislators during PTA Focus Day and during the presentation of the budget.

Board President Ehrlichman said, “It is a simple idea to get parents to communicate with Olympia.” Through participating, parents will see they have a voice.

The School Board approved an addendum to the Joint Use Agreement with the City of Shoreline for the surplused Sunset School Site. The agreement assigns responsibility for scheduling and maintenance of the site for public recreational purposes to the city of Shoreline and provides that the city pay all costs associated with the site.

It also includes a mandatory clause that allows the school district to recapture the site for school purposes in the future.

Lynn Huston of Friends of Sunset Park, who had helped write the master plan which the City and the School Board both approved, requested the covered play area remain destined for removal when the funding is found. The addendum now states that the covered play area will not be removed and “made available for public use”. This would provide “obstacles” to future planning since in order to remove it the City Council and School Board would have to be involved again. The concrete structure blocks the view and would disrupt the beauty of the future park.