By Keri Brenner | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal Sausalito Marin City School District trustees have signed off on an ambitious design plan to unearth an underground creek that runs through campus. Trustees voted unanimously on Thursday in favor of the plan for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy. The design includes an 120-seat outdoor amphitheater overlooking the bay, […]
By Keri Brenner | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal The Sausalito Marin City School District is moving ahead on a much-debated plan to move subterranean Willow Creek above ground. The district’s trustees voted unanimously this month to award a nearly $800,000 architectural design contract for the project to Prunuske Chatham Inc. “The scope of the work is the full
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal Marin County, the Sausalito Marin City School District and the Richardson’s Bay Regional Agency have been selected for nearly $10 million in water quality and wetlands projects. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the grants Wednesday at an event in Oakland. The Marin projects are among two dozen in the
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal On Friday, a day after trustees awarded an $18,000 pre-construction contract for the school to BHM Construction Inc. of Napa, a Sausalito civic leader said he and his team and the district had in recent days created a potential “plan B” for bringing the property’s underground Willow Creek above ground.
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal The Sausalito City Council and the Sausalito Marin City School District will hold a joint session next month to review plans for developing a 13-acre parcel owned by the district. City Council members reacted in favor of the idea after an invitation at their March 7 meeting from Itoco
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal Sausalito officials are preparing a resolution calling for the school district to scrap plans to relocate an underground creek. The City Council is expected to approve the resolution when it meets on Tuesday. The Sausalito Marin City School District wants to move Willow Creek as part of its project to
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal Leaders of two Marin environmental nonprofit groups are urging the Sausalito Marin City School District to take a slower pace and a more considered approach to a design for a new $32 million elementary school in Sausalito. “We’re rooting for the district — we want this to be successful,” said
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal Environmental groups and city leaders are questioning Sausalito Marin City School District’s effort to relocate an underground creek as part of a plan to build a new elementary school. The Sierra Club Marin Group, along with Friends of Willow Creek, the Marin Conservation League and the Sausalito City Council, are
