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PTA Council allocates funds to fight

subway tunnel

“Schools and subways do not mix. Metro

needs a better fix.”

The PTA Council voted Tuesday morn-

ing to allocate up to $3,500 to create ban-

ners, signs, T-shirts and other PR materials

with slogans including the one above to

send a message to Metro that Beverly Hillsdoes not want the subway tunneling under

Beverly High.

Terry Fahn of Sitrick and Company, the

public affairs firm retained by BHUSD to

help with the subway fight, encouraged

parents to voice their opposition to the pro-

posed subway tunnel under the high school.

“Community involvement and commu-

nity support is essential to show that there

is desire to move the subway tunnel from

Constellation to Santa Monica [Boulevard],”

Fahn said.

Fahn encouraged the community to come

out to tonight’s open house meeting about

the subway extension hosted by Metro at

Temple Emanuel from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Fahn

also suggested contacting elected represen-

tatives, including Rep. Henry Waxman’s

office and County supervisors.

“We want everyone to speak in an edu-

cated fashion,” Fahn said. “Rhetoric I don’t

think is very helpful at this point.”

For talking points, Fahn directed par-

ents to centurycitysubway.org, the website

BHUSD created to support the case for

locating the Century City station at Santa

Monica Boulevard. Fahn also directed par-

ents to the Exponent report, the City’s

peer review report that points out flaws in

Metro’s geotechnical analysis.Board of Education member Lisa Korbatov

said she expects BHUSD’s report related to

trenching that was done at Beverly High to

be released within two weeks.

Mayor Willie Brien gave an update from

the City with respect to the subway.

“The City Council will be taking this up

at its next meeting in closed session [on

April 3],” Brien said. “We’ll be looking at

all of our options and strategies. The council

is united and uniform in their unanimous

support of not tunneling under the high

school.”

Brien announced the City and school dis-

trict are working on scheduling an ad hoc

joint meeting to discuss the subway issue.

At Tuesday’s meeting, the 2012-2013

PTA Council executive board was appr

with Susie Roberts elected presiden

Jennifer Terrell-Schwartz elected exec

vice president.

Board of Education hires historical

architect for Hawthorne assessment

In the wake of several stories pub

in the Weekly highlighting radical de

tion plans for Hawthorne as part of Me

E construction, the BHUSD Boar

Education voted 4-0 Tuesday eveni

hire a consultant to prepare a historic a

ment report on the campus.The contract was awarded to hist

architect G. Taylor Louden, AIA, w

working with Hawthorne architects

WWCOT as a historic preservation

sultant.

“What I’ve proposed to do is evalua

structures that are there. Instead of vie

[the campus] from a programmatic,

tural, mechanical or plumbing [standp

I’m evaluating it for historical, archite

and cultural significance,” Louden

“Effectively, it’s surveying what’s

and it can be buildings and all the way

to the details [looking at things like]

fixtures.”

Louden said he would prepare a

ranking aspects of the campus in

of historical significance, and prov

recommendations on what can be rep

rehabilitated, or removed.

At Tuesday’s meeting, the board

approved the draft notice of prepa

and initial study for the Horace Mann

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