Conceptual Master Plan - Emeryville Center of Community Life

ECCL Presentation
3-24-09
6:45pm-7:45pm
Emeryville Anna Yates Elementary School
Comments/Minutes:
John Sugiyama introduced Mark Schatz and Dara Youngdale from the Field/Paoli and
HKIT Architect Team.
Mark and Dara presented the power point presentation on the Center of Community Life.
Verbal comments/questions and answers given at the presentation included:
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Projected enrollment at the school in the next 20 years?
o New facility is planned for 800, same as now. The split is coherts of 60
per grade level. The building is constructed to be expanded already if
needed (won’t have to tear down, add a new level). Also, some extra
rooms have been built in. EUSD had a study done on demographics and
trends in enrollment. Our growth depends on the quality of its schools, if
we continue to improve as we are, we’ll expand and not squeeze out kids.
Are their many examples of schools that have all levels on one campus and how
do they address security?
o School sizes and grade configuration our more determined by site size.
Also, most top international schools are k-12
Has son entering kindergarten and was scared having K-6 on one site, how to
keep out all of the community to be a safe site?
o Security is an issue and we’re addressing it, we don’t have the answers
yet, but this center is intended to welcome everyone. Maybe we have
expanded security staff or movable gates during the date.
Funding of the project? I heard 1/3 is redevelopment, good, but what about the
other 2/3’s in this economy considering? Also, I live next door, how long will
construction cost? Finally, what are we doing with the school that just had $9
million invested?
o City has $25 million set aside, using for planning. Designs will help us
apply for state school construction funding and federal dedication to
improving schools, finally, if we have a gap, a possibility of a bond issue
to vote on by community. The land is worth $25 million roughly and the
this is the initial investment by the school district.
o The construction will take 2 years.
o Anna Yates was built to serve the kids now, we can’t forget about them
while reaching this dream. We also wanted to test ideas thoughtfully and
pragmatically like multiple stories, science centers, etc. We learning how
to share facilities and have programs for the whole community. Finally,