City, district reach North agreement
The city of Hermosa Beach and the local school district have finalized an agreement intended to manage neighborhood impacts resulting from the planned reopening of North School. The agreement, approved by the City Council at its regular meeting last week and by the board of the Hermosa Beach City School District at a special meeting the following morning, caps more than a month of close work between the two bodies. The agreement allows the district to move forward with various aspects of rebuilding North School, and greatly reduces the threat of litigation between the two bodies that had hung over plans to reopen the campus. “Working together, we have developed an agreement that will achieve the city’s and the district’s goals and ensure construction can move forward on North School,” Mayor Stacey Armato said in a statement. School Board President Doug Gardner, in turn, thanked a lengthy roster of city officials, and said the district was eager to begin work on North. The 12-page agreement calls for the city and the district to split the cost of hiring a traffic engineer to help identify congestion issues created by the school’s reopening, and to create a Neighborhood Traffic…
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