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Board of Education Special Board Meeting
Redwood City ESD
July 11, 2019 7:00PM
District Office - 750 Bradford St. Redwood City, CA 94063

1. Call to Order
1.1. Roll Call
2. Welcome
2.1. Welcome
2.2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Changes to the Agenda
3.1. Changes to the Agenda
4. Approval of Agenda (Action Required)
4.1. Approval of Agenda
5. Oral Communication (for items not on the Regular Board Agenda) (See SPEAKING AT BOARD MEETINGS above.) The Brown Act (Open Meeting Law) prohibits the Board taking action at this meeting on items discussed during this time.
6. Discussion - Lease of District Surplus Properties
Rationale:
The Redwood City School District (RCSD) Board of Trustees will discuss the steps the school district is taking to lease district surplus properties. These properties are 3150 Granger Way (formerly Adelante), 2950 Fair Oaks (formerly Fair Oaks), 909 Roosevelt (formerly Hawes), 815 Allerton (formerly Orion), and the District Office at 750 Bradford Street, in Redwood City. A previous decision has placed two charter schools on the Fair Oaks site and the possibility of studying the District Office in downtown for teacher and staff housing. 

These properties are now vacant due to the RCSD Board of Trustees’ vote in November of 2018 to merge and move programs and consolidate schools as part of the district’s process called Planning for our Future to rethink how to focus on the organization’s mission: Educating Every Child for Success. 
 
The Planning for our Future process was undertaken because an independent financial consultant concluded that with declining enrollment, RCSD could not sustain 16 schools with 7,500 students and specifically schools with an enrollment of less than 400 students. The district has lost close to 2,000 students in six years as a result of families moving out of the Bay Area due to the high cost of living and three charter schools that operate within the RCSD attendance zone.
 
RCSD has formed what is known as a 7-11 Committee, comprised of faculty, staff, and parents/community members, which is a California law required committee with the objective to advise the Board of Trustees in the use of real property no longer needed for school purposes. (Education Code Section 17388). 
 
As RCSD moves through the process to find tenants for these properties, the district invites friends and neighbors to hear an update from the district’s consultant, Mr. Dominic Dutra of 3D Strategies, and to provide their input for their future new neighbors.
 
Alternatives:
Prepared by: Jorge Quintana, Director of Communications
Approved by: John R. Baker, Ed.D., Superintendent 
7. Adjournment

Published: July 8, 2019, 1:24 PM

The resubmit was successful.