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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
YEAR 35
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CVHS to Add Onsite Health Clinic By Michael Singer
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MAC MEETING
Utility Boxes Facelift
Castro Valley High School could open an onsite health clinic as soon as August of this year, according to a plan laid out to the District at last Wednesday’s Board of TrusBy Amy Sylvestri tees meeting. CASTRO VALLEY FORUM The clinic would allow students and the public to receive The utility boxes around healthcare such as physical extown boxes will be getting a ams, sports physicals, immunifacelift soon, as the next phase zations and boosters, pharmacy of the Alameda County Arts prescriptions, reproductive Commission was unanimously health services, and referrals approved by the Castro Valley for dental and mental health Municipal Advisory Council services. (MAC) at their Monday night meeting. The clinic would be run through a partnership with The new phase will include the Tiburcio Vasquez Health refreshing the art on 47 exCenter (TVHC), which also isting decorated utility boxes PHOTO BY MICHAEL SINGER and adding two more boxes operates school-based health centers at Tennyson High, on Foothill Boulevard at 164th These two portables could soon house a new health clinic at Castro Valley Hayward High, and Logan High School. The school district’s partnership with the Tiburcio Vasquez Health Avenue and on 167th Avenue, High Schools. which weren’t included in the Center would allow students and residents to get basic healthcare services. initial 2018 phase of boxes that “Many students are coming were decorated. The clinic would have on-cam“The clinic would have a into our health office and ask- Center between the 500 hall pus access for students during family practitioner, a receptioning for these types of services, and F-wing buildings at the The vinyl wraps on the boxist, and a health educator onbut we currently have to send northwest end of campus. The the school day with limited es need to be replaced every access for the community after site with one or two examina- three to five years, and it’s portables, accessible at Santa them off campus for them to Maria Avenue, are already out- school and on weekends. tion rooms,” Katheryn Horner, time for a “proactive” update, get the health services they Chief Operations Officer for need,” said Marian Meadows, fitted as a health clinic space Student confidentiality, according to Rachel OsajiTVHC, told the Forum. “We Castro Valley Unified School but need facility upgrades, ma, director of the Alameda parent engagement, referral have a lot of experience in District (CVUSD) behavioral Meadows added. County Arts Commission. The processes, and other services serving the community’s health existing art will be replaced health services coordinator. will be coordinated between For its part, CVUSD will needs, and we’re happy to be with new imagery from local the clinic, the CVHS Health provide custodial services, The plan is to convert the partnering with Castro Valley.” artists, and installation is set for two portable offices that used ground-keeping maintenance Office, and the CVHS Wellsee CLINIC on back page mid-2024 through 2025. to house the previous Wellness as well as campus supervision. ness Center. Each box costs $5,750, including licensing art from the artists, So with an approximate five-year lifespan; that means having decorated boxes cost a bit more than $1,000 per year per box and a total of just more Barisha Spriggs of Eden Rent- than $280,000 for all of the Since the early days of the Leandro, By Mike McGuire ers United. boxes in this phase. pandemic, landlords in Alame- which have CASTRO VALLEY FORUM da County were restricted from their own Neither tenant groups nor Osajima says the cost is protections, evicting tenants who failed landlords were pleased with worth it because artwork deters Renters in Castro Valley to pay rent if they lost jobs or landlords the results of the meeting. graffiti and “arts and creativity and other unincorporated RENT WOES Landlords and landlord groups are an essential part of life in areas financially impacted by suffered other hardships due to in Castro Valley and had wanted an immediate end our community.” COVID-19 could be at risk of COVID-19. When California and Alam- surrounding areas will be able to the moratorium. In contrast, The MAC agreed, with eviction as soon as April 29 to enforce nonpayment of rent tenant groups had argued eda County health officials member Ken Carbone saying after the Alameda County’s that protections were needed in less than 45 days, leaving removed the “state of emerhe had “no problem with the Board of Supervisors let a against the eviction wave they expenditure” and member Al pandemic-related moratorium gency” status late last month, some tenants nervous. it put in motion the end of the “It’s a day when supervisors see as likely after the moratori- Pardo saying that the artwork expire and failed to pass new um expires. has received “nothing but posicouldn’t deliver on the most tenant protections at their Feb. moratorium. see EVICTION on page 4 see MAC on page 10 Unlike in Oakland and San basic tenant protections,” said 28 meeting.
Eviction Moratorium Set to Expire