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Ruling Resolves Dispute Over Workday VOLUME XLIV, NUMBER 36 Your Local News Source Since 1963 SERVING LIVERMORE • PLEASANTON • SUNOL THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2007 Ruling Resolves Dispute over Workday By Patricia Koning A remedy requesting additional Under the new schedule, high means that teachers cannot be The distinction is not based A longstanding dispute be- compensation for Granada school teachers will have a daily disciplined if they do need to on grade level, but class size. tween the Livermore Education teachers for the 2006/07 school 40-minute prep period either be- leave the campus for personal or Since class size reduction (20:1) Association (LEA), the teachers’ year was not sustained. fore their first class or after their work reasons after their contrac- is applied in kindergarten union, and the Livermore Valley While students won’t notice last class. A tentative schedule tual workday has ended.” through third grades, fewer prep Joint Unified School District has any change, schedules for high has teachers starting their day Middle and elementary periods are required for those finally been resolved. In May school teachers will be slightly with a prep from 8-8:40 am and school teachers probably won’t teachers. 2006, LEA filed a grievance over different as a result of the rul- ending their workday at 3:10 pm, see a change in their work sched- Pickering-Walters says the rul- a schedule change at Granada ing. Full-time teachers teach or starting their workday at 6:55 ule, as their preparation periods ing has bigger implications for High School, which it said vio- class during three periods out of am, having their prep time from already meet what was defined future bargaining sessions with lated the teacher contract. 1:25-2:05 pm, and ending their in the ruling. Kindergarten Michael Fennelly a possible four. In the past, the the District. An arbitration ruling issued on fourth period was the teachers workday at 2:05 pm. through third grade teachers are “This gives both sides clarity, August 21 defined the teachers’ prep time. However, as the class “We all know that teachers required to have three 40-minute so when we sit down at the bar- Concert Will work day as no more and no less periods are 90 minutes long, this and other staff members are on prep periods per week. Teachers gaining table we can say this is than 6.5 hours and stated that 40- meant teachers were required to campus for much longer than 6.5 of fourth grade and higher are what we have and where do we Benefit Young minute preparation periods must stay at school longer than 6.5 hours,” explains LEA President required to have five 40-minute go from here,” he explains. “Even Artist Awards be contained within that workday. hours. Keith Pickering-Walters. “This prep periods per week. (See DISPUTE, page 5) The Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council (PCAC) will present a classical piano concert per- Housing Cap Looms formed by Michael Fennelly. The concert will be Sat., Sept. 8 at 8 p.m. at the First Presbyte- Over Pleasanton rian Church, 4th and L Streets, Livermore. This concert is to honor the memory of Renee Smith. It is a benefit for PCAC's General Plan Decisions Young Artist Achievement The Pleasanton City Council table, not the 1685 previously re- Awards in Music, given in Renee was all over the map when it ported by staff. Of the 2755 Smith's name. came to discussing the draft land units, 113 are reserved for the Fennelly began playing piano use element in the general plan Busch property and 200 are to at age five. His mother, a piano update. The 29,000 unit voter be placed in reserve for future teacher started him. There were, housing cap issue came up many planning. he said three pianos at his house times during the discussion. James Paxson, CEO of the Ha- so there was lots of music. Only The council agreed that two cienda Business Owners Associa- five years later he performed his new land use designations were tion, asked that the additional first concert. good. They didn’t support the units be designated for Hacienda. Fennelly fondly remembers planning commission recom- With 900 units (333 were already Renee Smith, the woman who mendation to revise the defini- designated), it would be possible provided him with his first tion of developable acreage. The to produce a viable transit ori- chance at performing. Smith council couldn’t agree on how ented development plan. Paxson touted young Michael's talent to count senior housing under said he realized there would not when he won the local Liver- the cap, nor on how many units be a commitment to that number more-Amador Symphony Annual might be considered for devel- of units on the part of the coun- Competition for Young Musi- opment in the Hacienda Busi- cil. The final decision would be cians in 1982 and 1984. Fennelly Photo - Doug Jorgensen ness Park. based on the proposal from Ha- recalls, “All the training in the Don Kumpf (from left), A.C. Clements, Jason Cain, and Bob Pierce enjoy a round of golf. The number of units available cienda. world means nothing if you can’t has been revised after staff found The two new land use desig- perform at a recital.” Without that in some cases there had been nations are mixed use, which al- Renee, he would not be where he double counting of approved lows any combination of busi- is today, according to Fennelly. Worries about Future of Golf Course units. There are 2755 units on the (See HOUSING, page 5) Following his first recital, he began then to make appearances The Springtown Golf Course Springtown Homeowners and ing quota, and the developer has many bumps and turns, traps (See CONCERT, page 8) Editor of the Springtowner, the would in turn have the privilege Pleasanton District Trying To and watering holes. The story of city is looking at several options of building a “higher-cost” hous- its future may have a few bumps concerning the golf course. They ing elsewhere in the city.” Facilitate High Schools’ Expansion and turns too. While it has never include renovating it, operating She said that could create been a big moneymaker, it is clear the golf course as it is today, or more population density, and The Pleasanton school board school planning at three meet- the golf course is loved by those perhaps reusing the golf course “destroy not only our real estate will conduct a special study ses- ings so far this year. The trustees who play it. for some other public purpose values, but the good quality of sion, probably in September, to looked at early architectural Around eighty residents gath- such as a neighborhood sports life in our neighborhood. If the sharpen up the picture of just drawings to form an idea of how ered last week in Springtown to park. A committee has been rumored development is true, it what can be done to expand and the final products would look. express concern over the future formed by concerned residents appears that the City of Liver- modify its high schools in the Next, the board will try to fine- of the Springtown Golf Course. about the changes since as of more doesn’t care enough about face of school population expan- tune projects, with an eye toward They plan to attend the Sept. 10 yet, the City still has not asked our welfare to keep our living Livermore City Council meeting sion. breaking them into smaller incre- the Association for input standards from deteriorating.” ments, so the district would have Dana Barbero and Laurie to voice those concerns. (though the golf course backs Those themes were echoed No date has been set yet for Grey staff the van. Rumors have been flying to our homes and facilities). during the meeting held in the session, because of the need more choice in what needed to around about what the city plans Last week in a letter to the Springtown. Another complaint to clear calendars to find the time. be funded in a first round, and Van Takes to do with the land. Many of those editor, Betty Crosby wrote, “It was that the city focused all of At the board’s meeting Aug. what did not. at last week’s meeting pointed out is rumored the City might sell its efforts on the Las Positas Golf 21, the commitment was made to For example, at Amador Val- Health Care to that the golf course is one of the the Springtown Golf Course to Couse. move forward with seeing how ley High School, there is a pro- few amenities on the northside of a developer who would build Both the Las Positas and much expansion can be com- posal to expand the gym, and an Those In Need the freeway. low-cost housing on the Golf Springtown golf courses are op- pleted with the estimated avail- adjacent weight room. Next to The Livermore Rotarian According to Kathleen Laing Course land so the City could erated as enterprise funds. This able funding at $18 million. those two facilities, there would Foundation and ValleyCare Schoening, Vice President of the meet its required low-cost hous- (See GOLF COURSE, page 5) The board has discussed high (See HIGH SCHOOL, page 4) Health System welcomed some Livermore elementary students back to classes Aug. 27 by offer- McNerney Touts Education ing free immunizations from the new mobile health unit. Education is the key to this to Nancy Pelosi.” He then ex- The health unit was parked at country being able to compete in plained he had acquired it dur- May Nissen Park adjacent to an international economy.
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