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Living Schoolyards Coalition urges LAUSD to use bond funds to cover fees and remediation for school greening projects
Summary
Nonprofit greening partners told the LAUSD Bond Oversight Committee that district fees, unanticipated remediation and ADA costs are eating grant funds and forcing scope cuts; they urged the district to establish a clear path for bond dollars to reimburse partners and preserve project scope.
At a March meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District Bond Oversight Committee, members of the Living Schoolyards Coalition and nonprofit partners urged the district to allow bond funds to cover district fees, environmental remediation and other unanticipated costs that are shrinking the scope of community-led school greening projects.
"These costs are unpredictable in the grant application process and take away from our critical greening work," said Emily Tyver, director of green infrastructure at TreePeople, citing testing and remediation for contaminated soils, asbestos and lead paint. Tyver and other speakers said nonprofits are being required to pay district project-management and compliance fees and to…
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