The Poway Unified School District says it needs money to repair and upgrade many of its aging school buildings. NBC 7 Investigates toured Poway High and saw a leaky roof, broken lockers and busted shower drains.
The drains inside the boys' locker room showers at Poway High School don’t drain. The clay pipes, installed when the school was built in 1961, aren’t just clogged, they’re busted beyond repair.
“A couple times we’ve had to cancel a game in the middle of the game because the water is coming through the roof,” Nash said. Many other Poway Unified schools have similar problems. For more than two weeks this past August, students at Rancho Bernardo High and Bernardo Heights Middle dealt with a failing air conditioning system. To cope, classes moved outdoors, fans and portable AC units were brought in, and school days were shortened or canceled outright.
“It’s just a matter of time until all of the major systems at all 39 schools eventually fail,” Little told NBC 7. “By 2024, two-thirds of our schools will be in orange, almost critical condition. And by 2028, something like 90% of our schools — their major systems will be failing.
Little says Poway Unified passed a bond measure in 2002 that gave the district $198 million and one in 2008 for $179 million. By 2011, that money had been spent. That same year, Poway voters approved a ballot measure for a third bond.
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