Vacaville to keep school site, build new campus

Vacaville to keep school site, build new campus
By Nika Megino | Daily Republic | July 18, 2008

VACAVILLE - Fairmont Charter Elementary School will have a new campus by fall 2009.

The Vacaville School Board voted unanimously Thursday to approve building a new school on Fairmont's current site at 1355 Marshall Road.

Site development for the 53,200-square-foot building will begin in the next few weeks and construction will follow in the fall, said Leigh Coop, director of facilities for the Vacaville School District.

Funded by Measure V and developer fees, the $19.5 million project will be Vacaville's first two-story school.

It will also be the city's first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design school, which is a nationally accepted certification program for the design, construction and operation of sustainable buildings.

That means the school will include rooftop solar photo voltaic panels, a demonstration educational wind turbine and many energy-saving windows, Coop said.

The cost of building the new school on the same site was found to be the same as renovating the current campus, Coop said.

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