Wavecrest July 2004
Proposed Map
This site collects a variety of useful and interesting information about the Cabrillo Unified School District.
The district's Facilities Master Plan was adopted in February 1996. Even though the plan itself requires an annual public hearing and review, our school board has not once held such a hearing.
Read more about the Facilities Master Plan here.
A $35 million bond (Measure K) was approved by the CUSD voters in 1996. Part of the proceeds was to have been used to build a new middle school. While enrollment has fallen since then, our middle school at Cunha is still in need of rebuilding.
"To repair or replace leaky roofs, deteriorating plumbing, sewers, heating, and electrical systems, expand the high school, construct a new middle school to relieve existing overcrowded conditions and provide adequate classrooms for students already enrolled in district elementary schools, renovate libraries, upgrade science and computer labs, remove harmful asbestos, acquire and construct classrooms and school sites, shall Cabrillo Unified School District issue $35 million of bonds at an interest rate within the legal limit?"
Jonathan Lundell's commentary
Read Jonathan Lundell's views on middle school siting here.
Jim Grady's presentation (2003)
In this presentation, Half Moon Bay City Council member Jim Grady makes the case for building a new middle school at Cunha (January 13 2003).
Jerry Laster's bond opinion (2002)
There has been some dispute over whether the language of Measure K (the 1996 bond measure) allows us to keep our middle school at Cunha. Here [PDF] is an opinion from noted bond counsel Jerry Laster.
John Bayless's presentation (2002)
On May 7, 2002, Superintendent John Bayless made this presentation on middle school site selection. Cunha is the clear choice.
Site selection committee report (1996)
Read the report [PDF] of the CUSD Site Selection Committee (October 24 1996). Notice that, using the state site selection criteria, Cunha ranked #1 of five candidate sites, while Wavecrest ran a distant fourth.
The proposal to build a middle school as part of the Wavecrest development is only one piece of the Wavecrest picture.
Wavecrest Purchase & Sale Agreement (2004)
Purchase & Sale Agreement [PDF] laying out the terms of CUSD's purchase of the Wavecrest property and their sale of their 20-acre El Granada property to the developer for $1,000,000.
This summary [PDF] by the district describes the differences between the 2004 purchase agreement and the original 1998 agreement.
The report [PDF] out of closed session describes how the board approved the contract in a closed session with no mention of the contract on the agenda.
Grand Jury report on Wavecrest land swap (1999)
The San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury looked into the 1998 Wavecrest/CUSD land swap and didn't like everything they saw. Here's their final report [PDF].
Appeal to California Coastal Commission (1999)
Initial appeal [PDF] of Wavecrest project to the CCC by developer Leonard Beuth and others (filed 1999-07-16).
wavecrest.sanmateo.org
For more information, visit wavecrest.sanmateo.org.
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