sky painting, Watercolor painting u6c34u5f69u98a8u666fu756b, Watercolor blue sky clouds sea background, blue, watercolor Leaves, atmosphere png 2000x2667px 4.55MB. I think going forward they’ll be more open because they know it’s needed and it’s what was really asked for. “President Singer, her quote at the task force was, ‘Go back to the drawing board.’ We were all clear on what the board wanted from us, and it seemed like the district wasn’t, or was trying to make a narration to lead us a different way. “I think the board kind of checked them, in a way,” Wildvank said. Still, she said she hoped Thursday’s special meeting represented a step in the right direction. A lot of us were like, then why are we here?” “That was shocking to our little group of parents at last week’s meeting. “Every idea has been directly countered, ‘No, that wouldn’t work,’” she said. Wildvank said only a handful of district parents like herself have been at any meeting, which has been frustrating. Her first-grade daughter, Dahlia, one of her two children at the school, has been diagnosed with a very rare genetic disorder. Jenny Wildvank is a Village View special education parent who attended Thursday’s meeting and also sits on the task force. Star View Elementary School in Westminster was the most recent site to be modernized, with Mesa View Middle School in Huntington Beach improvements coming next. Meanwhile, the district continues modernizing some of its other schools using funds from the $169-million Measure R bond passed in 2016. What about renting our roofs to solar panels? What about leasing them? I was completely shut down, ‘We’ve already looked into it.’ Everybody sitting there was like, ‘Why was I shut down so much? Why not go out into the wide world and see if there are any new opportunities?’” Keeley Pratt, a Village View parent, said after Thursday’s meeting that she had made a recommendation about solar panels at the last task force meeting and disagreed with Farley’s assertion. When the committee heard the unbelievable number of things you’ve done over the last 10 years on that topic, it was clear from getting that data that there wasn’t anything else to do.” At the last meeting, there was a lot of discussion about energy conservation and initiating some program to save money from the escalating energy costs. “In reality, the district had already attempted to do X, Y and Z, and it didn’t make a difference in terms of enrollment. “What’s happened a couple of times is that suggestions have come up, ‘Why don’t you do X, Y, and Z,’” Farley said. We were promised community-led, and we got district-led.”įarley said during the meeting that he expects to get into possible solutions as the task force enters the home stretch. 
We aren’t given the chance to question anything. What should become abundantly clear tonight is that this task force has not once discussed solutions. “You said you were eager to hear solutions from this task force. “You pledged to listen to the community,” Mayer told the board. One of them, Crystal Mayer, is a Circle View parent who has remained very involved in the process. Several parents giving public comments at the meeting expressed frustration.
That trend is expected to continue, he said, as a study by Davis Demographics projects the district’s enrollment to be just 5,563 by 2030.Įnrollment is dropping throughout California as the birth rate declines, with California kindergarten-through-12th-grade enrollment hitting a 20-year low of about 5.8 million students in 2021, down 6.23 million from 2016 numbers. During the presentation, Farrow showed that Ocean View School District went from 9,418 students in 2012-13 to 6,809 students a decade later. I’ve always said everything should be on the table.”īoard Vice-President Gina Clayton-Tarvin has said multiple times that she will vote no on any school closures. But I’m going to wait for the task force to start looking at creative ideas, whether it’s land leasing, selling property, closing schools, not closing schools. “I’m not going to give you ideas or suggestions, and believe me, as a real estate agent for over 20 years, I have plenty of ideas. “I’m going to continue to listen to the task force, I’m going to continue to listen to the staff,” Singer said. It was intended for the Board of Trustees to study data that has been presented to the task force regarding declining enrollment.īoard President Patricia Singer said during the meeting that she was not going to be giving any thoughts - at least not yet - because it would distract from the intent of the task force. Joe Farley, a former Orange County superintendent who is facilitating the task force meetings. Thursday’s special board meeting was led primarily by Assistant Supt. Three more are on the docket, set for next Wednesday, Oct.
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