Another effort at city/school district cooperation will come
before the board Monday night, as Morgan Hill School Board trustees
consider a late addition to the meetings agenda: a request from
city officials to drill a new well on the Live Oak High campus.
Another effort at city/school district cooperation will come before the board Monday night, as Morgan Hill School Board trustees consider a late addition to the meetings agenda: a request from city officials to drill a new well on the Live Oak High campus.
During the Feb. 13 City/School District Liaison committee meeting, which was also attended by members of this year’s Leadership Morgan Hill class, City Manager Ed Tewes told Superintendent Carolyn McKennan and Trustees Shelle Thomas and Tom Kinoshita the city is “anxious to develop another water source.”
Tewes told the committee, which includes City Councilmen Steve Tate and Larry Carr, a former School Board member, that the city’s water supply is entirely based on ground water, unlike other cites which have treatment facilities.
”In the summer months, when we are drier, it is just not meeting our needs,” said Tewes.
The city is proposing to test an old capped well on the west side of the Live Oak campus to determine if would be worthwhile for the city to dig a new well there.
Currently, there are two storage trailers on the site containing, according to Thomas, items for the annual Grad Night and other activities. She also told Tewes that the trailers are in bad condition, and if the city attempts to move them, they may fall apart. Thomas also said she would rather see the city look at the ag farm as a potential site for a new well.
“We have just gotten that area (the site of the old well) looking nice,” she said. “There is plenty of space on the ag farm.”
Tewes requested that trustees consider the city’s proposal.
McKennan said that the item would be placed on the agenda for Monday’s regular board meeting.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, in the board room at the district office, 15600 Concord Circle.
