Trustees Approve Tax District for New School
Members of the city’s school board have approved the formation of a special tax district to finance the construction of a new elementary school in the Olinda Heights area.
“We haven’t built a new school here in a long time, about 17 years,” Supt. Peggy Lynch said. “It brings its share of challenges, but it’s exciting.”
With an estimated cost of up to $7 million, the elementary school will be the seventh in the Brea Olinda Unified School District.
The district will finance the school through bonds, and future homeowners in the Olinda Heights area would pay yearly fees to retire the debt.
The school is tentatively set to open in spring 1999, Lynch said. It would serve children in the Olinda Heights development, a planned community of 662 homes north of Carbon Canyon Road and east of Valencia Avenue.
The school’s “core” and about half the classrooms will be built first to accommodate about 300 students, Lynch said.
As more people move into Olinda Heights, more classrooms will be added to serve about 600 students.
The school will be near what was once the town of Olinda, a community of oil industry workers and their families that had become abandoned by the 1940s.
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