Schools Get Summer Facelift

Students will find a range of improvements in their classrooms and playgrounds when they return to school in the fall.

"Throughout the summer, the maintenance team will be completing an extensive list of tasks both large and small to ensure that all sites are outfitted to provide the best possible learning environment for students," said Rhonda Bacot, maintenance staff director for the Las Virgenes Unified School District.

At Chaparral Elementary, LVUSD maintenance staff is working to replace old asphalt, move basketball backstops and re-stripe courts of the school's upper-level playground, according to a district news release.

Efforts to re-seed the grass on the school's upper field and the installation of new playground equipment are also underway, which is a project that's received funding from the Chaparral Parent Faculty Club.

At Calabasas High, ground broke for a new performing arts center in June, but that project won't be completed for several years.

However, returning students will notice a newly refurbished swimming pool that's been completed with full re-plastering, new starting blocks, a three-meter board and one-meter board for diving, and an ADA-compliant wheelchair lift, according to the release.

Access to the revamped pool, made possible by the Measure G Construction bond, began on Wednesday.

The LVUSD Board of Education will vote on other potential renovations on July 27.

Up for approval is the adage of new floors to the multipurpose rooms of Round Elementary and new floors at A.E. Wright Middle School's M building and Lupin Hill Elementary School's T building.