Palisades Charter High School students are scheduled to return to their campus in January, one year after the Wimbledon Fire devastated their community and severely damaged nearly 3,000 schools.
The program is designed for students to use approximately 70% of the campus that was damaged by smoke but was destroyed and 30 portable buildings that will temporarily house the baseball field.
“In buildings … that are strong, we go through the industrial cleaning process and we get those buildings repaired,” said Isam Dahdul, superintendent of buildings, said in a presentation Tuesday to the Board of Education. The property that the Independent Charter School was attacking is owned by the Los Angeles Unified School District.
“We hope they will be able to come back after the winter break,” said Dahdul. “They didn’t clear all the environmental permits, so we’re still working on that, and we’ll continue to work with that community to let them know it’s safe to go back to those buildings.”
The total $266.6 million project, which will include a new classroom building and a restored baseball field, is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2029.
Returning to the college will allow students to leave temporary quarters at the former Sears Building in Santa MOMICA.
After the fire, the school operated online for four months – using strategies similar to those developed during the closure of the 19th campus. By the time the vacant Sears building was demolished and restored, nearly 1 in 1 students had dropped out, either because other options offered a more traditional high school experience or because families made up of the constraints faced by a temporary campus.
Conditions at Sears buildings have been challenging, and some parents have expressed concerns about issues such as overcrowding, safety, poor ventilation and a lack of green space.
In total, the fire of the bales has destroyed or damaged three combined three campuses, and some parents in these schools have expressed concern about returning quickly to the original sites and that, for example, toxic substances may remain in the soil.
Regional authorities insist that thorough procedures and precautions are in place.
Parent Johanna Minassian greeted the news of the impending return with hidden enthusiasm.
“Life, politics and the holidays are heavy in our society right now,” Minastian said. “Many of us are celebrating all the little wins at Palades, like returning to our beloved campus, Turkey Trot, family vacations in town this weekend.”
“Our students and our athletes are killing it in competitions, all while in the Sears Building and hitting the fields, the theaters,” said the lost team tools, “says the lost team tools and the lost team products. “Their dedication to their studies and social well-being is a renewal of our faculty, administrators and strong students.”
The $11 million cost of the Sears Campus was almost entirely covered by insurance policies maintained by the school, according to Campus officials. As a private school, Palikades High is run by a private profit, although it remains a public school funded by the government.
The Palisades fire destroyed 6,800 buildings and killed 12. Marquez Elementary was destroyed and Palikades was burned to the ground. Palisades Elementary will continue to operate at Brentwood Science Magnet during the reconstruction. Marquez Elementary — which retains an unusually large area for an elementary school — opened in September with temporary buildings placed on its original site, while a permanent campus is in hand.
The cost of the temporary marquez campus – about $ 19 million – makes up about 9% of the school’s $ 202.6 million reconstruction project. District authorities did not immediately provide the cost of PALI’s temporary high-rise campus.
Last spring, there was hope that the temporary upper campus of PALI would also be ready to fall, but that time shows a lack of confidence in spite of the fast plan and the state supervision process and the state supervision process.
“Given the nature of the emergency,” said School Resource Committee Chairman Nick Melvoin, “we have a commitment from the Governor to come down on the damage as much as possible.”
The temporary structures on the baseball field are ready to go.
“That part of the job is perfect,” Dahdul said. “We are continuing to clean up the rest of the existing buildings to be ready to go back to the college, and if this phase-two happens, we could have 30 classrooms.”
Three school construction projects will be paid for initially without voter-approved school bonds – although these dollars were originally earmarked for other purposes. The district authorities hope to recover the Bond account by using the funds for disaster relief and insurance payments.
