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AYER WARNS CHLORINE GAS STORED NEAR MEADOWLARK

Jacki Ayer, an Acton resident,  warned Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District 

Trustees about chlorine gas stored .7 miles from Meadowlark School in Acton at the Regular 

School Board meeting on January 8, 2008.

"LA County Waterworks District 37 is converting from chlorine to chloramine. To handle 

that process change the Waterworks District now has 2 one ton storage tanks of gas stored

at the corner of Crown Valley Road and Soledad Canyon Road. Documents show that you will 

have incapacitation and death within 1.5 miles of a release point of that gas. Meadowlark 

School is .7 miles from where the gas is stored."

Ayers urged trustees and members of the public to attend the LA County Public Works 

public hearing on Tuesday evening, January 20 at 7PM in Meadowlark School.

THOMSEN PLEADS FOR AGUA DULCE SCHOOL REPAIRS

Parent Merrie Thomsen passonately pleads for Agua Dulce Elementary School repairs at

Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District Board of Trustees Meeting on Thursday evening, 

January 8, 2008.

"You're taking about kindergartners through 5th grade walking in the mud to get to the 

top of the campus and they are soaking wet. That's unacceptable! My son is in a cafeteria where

water is running down the walls of the same exact cafeteria I was in back in 1986. This is

unacceptable! Absolutely Unacceptable."

Trustees agreed to ask Al Shanefield, AADUSD Facilities Manager, to prepare a priority list 

with estimated costs to repair any breakdowns at Agua Dulce School.

AADUSD WRESTLES WITH HI DESERT CLASS PERIODS

Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District Board of Trustees wrestled with choosing number 

of class periods at High Desert Junior High School during a Regular Board Meeting on Thursday 

evening, January 8, 2008. Superintendent Stan Halperin, Ph.D. and Principal Jerry Watkins favor

five period days for more teaching time in the classroom. Some parents object to longer class

times. Trustees decided to formerly survey parents by next meeting on January 22 and decide

then to either make a change immediately, wait until next school year to change or adopt 

Halperin's plan which he says raised test scores in other school districts where he served.

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