OXNARD : New School’s Costs Pared by $250,000
Plans for a new school, needed to help ease overcrowding, have been refined by the Oxnard School District Board in a cost-cutting move.
Board members unanimously approved a plan to combine the cafeteria and gymnasium areas, thereby reducing building costs by about $250,000 to $15.75 million.
Multipurpose rooms have become common in new schools, Supt. Norman Brekke said.
“It is built as a gym and also used as a cafeteria,” he said. “The tables retract into the walls.”
With the board’s decision, the plans will return to the district architect for redesigning and will then be forwarded for approval to the state Office of Architecture.
The Robert J. Frank Intermediate School, due to be completed in July, 1993, will serve 1,600 students in grades seven and eight. Adding a third intermediate school will relieve overcrowding in the district, Brekke said.
Only 1,200 children will attend the new school at any one time because of the district’s year-round scheduling. The school will be built on Colonia Road midway between Rose Avenue and Oxnard Boulevard at the extension of Juanita Avenue.
Robert J. Frank, for whom the new school will be named, was a longtime district teacher. “He was very proficient in the classroom, and this is a mark of respect to him,” said Ardyce Driskill, assistant superintendent of business.
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