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# Tackling facilities projects
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/tackling-facilities-projects/
- Published: 2007-03-10T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:13:23.000Z
- Author: Melody Hanatani
- Tags: Education, Malibu, #archive-import

SAMOHI Students in the Santa Monica- Malibu Unified School are one step closer to having their classrooms spruced up.

The Board of Education and the Ad Hoc Facilities Committee will be holding its fourth and final workshop this morning on the Facilities Master Plan before a draft is constructed, which will be presented back to the public in late April or early May.

The Facilities Master Plan evaluates the conditions of all the buildings in the district and creates a 20-year plan for improvement, maintenance and development of the facilities. The plan will tie in with how the district will spend the $268 million in bonds made available through Measure BB, which was recently approved by local voters in November.

Unlike the previous three workshops, the workshop this morning, scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon at the Santa Monica High School Cafeteria, will reveal conceptual plans for the first time.

The plans will be based on the status of the facilities, needs assessment and educational ideas that were reviewed during the other workshops, said Ralph Mechur, a member of the Ad Hoc Facilities Committee.

The meeting agenda is split into five different parts starting with the introduction of the speakers, followed by a recap of the master planning process to date, site proposals, policy issues that would impact the master plan, and conclude with a question and answer session.

One of the areas the workshop will explore is joint use projects — projects that receive revenue by the school district and another source.

Examples include a joint after-school program between the city of Santa Monica and the district.

The workshop will also touch on whether grades should be consolidated to include kindergarten through eighth grade or sixth through 12th grade in one building. The schools are currently clustered into kindergarten through fifth, sixth through eighth and ninth through 12th grades.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 10, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/031007.pdf?ref=smdp.com)