District 8 Community Round Table

The District 8 Community Round Table serves as a common body of community members who come together to address, research, communicate and educate on issues important to the greater San Jose Council District 8 communities.

Location change starting July

Effective July, we will be moving to the Village Square Library, 4001 Evergreen Village Square, San Jose, CA-95135

Upcoming Meetings

2016: Sept 1, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1

The D8CRT meets the first Thursday of the month at 7pm

Before July – Evergreen Branch Library located at: 2635 Aborn Road, San Jose, CA 95121 | Map

Starting July – Village Square Branch Library located at: 4001 Evergreen Village Square, San Jose, CA 95121 | Map

About

The D8CRT’s purpose is to improve the quality of life within District 8 and the surrounding neighborhoods. The D8CRT researches, promotes, and/or participates in programs and educates on projects that will result in overall community betterment.

Anyone can join!

The D8CRT’s goal is to foster, build, educate and support community organizations and positive individual activism within the District. Anyone can join!

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Excellent panelists at the District 8 Community Roundtable’s Homelessness panel on July 7,2016.

Note from Kathy Gomez, Superintendent of EESD

Evergreen School District is facing a significant enrollment decline. Consequently, we are in the process of forming a Facilities Advisory Committee. This committee will be charged with looking at all district schools, their capacity, projected enrollment, boundaries, etc. and making a recommendation to the Board about how we might maximize the use of our facilities to both serve the community and perhaps generate revenue.

We have solicited committee members but are still in need of someone who meets the following category:

Persons with expertise in environmental impact, legal contracts, building codes, and land use planning, including, but not limited to, knowledge of the zoning and other land use restrictions of the city or cities and counties in which surplus space and real property is located.

We are also looking for 3 additional members to serve as alternates to the committee.

Please contact Kathy Gomez at 408.270.6800, kgomez@eesd.org if you are interested.

District 8

Follow up from May 5th meeting regarding Cedar Grove School construction:

Why 2 story?

Limited space on campus was a concern. In order to fit at least 30 single story classrooms, we would have had to design finger buildings, meaning several rows of classrooms. This would create wasted space between buildings.
The major concern was supervision and security. It would be a nightmare to supervise, appropriately, students between the fingers. Also, it would provide blind spots that would be a security concern.

These were the two major reasons.

Where do we have other 2 story classrooms?

Our newer schools are two story schools, such as Carolyn Clark and James F. Smith. We also added a 2 story building at our Montgomery school. The main reason for this was, again, the most efficient use of limited space. Supervision and security were secondary.