School board approves Alameda Elementary schoolyard contract with Trust for Public Land

The Ontario SD 8C Board of Directors on June 2 approved an agreement with the Trust for Public Land that allows the district and the nonprofit to proceed toward bidding and constructing a redesigned schoolyard at Alameda Elementary.

The agreement, presented by Kristen Kovalik of the Trust for Public Land and landscape architect Ashley Ludwig, authorizes the district to move to procurement with a not-to-exceed budget tied to the project’s original design while retaining flexibility to use a smaller, modified design if the state funding request is not approved.

Kovalik said the project team has secured $950,000 in private and public grants to date and has a pending funding request in the state capital construction budget. “To date, we’ve been able to raise $950,000 toward the project,” Kovalik said. She told the board the legislature’s decision, expected in the coming week, will determine whether the project can be built as originally envisioned…