Bracher Elementary Modernization

Project Updates as of June 2025:

The Work is divided into phases beginning with site work summer 2025. Work will extend into the 2025-26 school year. All projects phases will be completed by the end of 2026:

• New parking lots with drop-off and pickup lanes.
• Four preschool and TK classrooms and support spaces designed for program flexibility.
• New preschool/TK playground with shade.
• New multipurpose building with full kitchen, indoor/outdoor stage and access to a fabric shade structure over a lunch court.

The following work is now underway:

• Demolish one portable classroom building.
• New standing-seam metal roofing on permanent buildings.
• Remove and replace the hard court play area.
• Contaminated soil removal.
• Offsite utility and street improvement work.

• Plan approvals for the new multipurpose and classroom building are underway with the Division of the State Architect, Final approval of the soil capping portion of the Removal Action Work Plan is nearly complete.
• Approximately 1,600 truck loads of soil will be removed from the site. The new turf field and all landscape areas will be constructed with clean imported top soil. Soil removal and new field work will continue into the fall. Fencing, barriers, traffic controls, dust prevention, and safety protocols will be in place.
• Most campus trees must be removed because of the required contaminated soil excavation and removal. A plan showing the trees to be retained and removed is available below. The landscaping plans provide many more new trees than those being removed.
• The construction schedule will likely be delayed by bird nesting restrictions imposed by Mitigation Measures in the approved CEQA Mitigated Negative Declaration.