School renovation efforts should get an $8 million to $12 million boost at the Jefferson Union High School District as funds become available from state Proposition 1A.
       The funds could help ronovate all five district schools: Jefferson, Westmoor and Thornton high schools in Daly City and Terra Nova and Oceana high schools in Pacifica.
       "(Renovating) is just something you have to do," Superintendent Michael Crilly said. "We haven't put money into some of these schools since Proposition 13 passed, and that was 1978."

Application status
       The district must still be approved for funding from the state's School Facility Program that Propostition 1A created. The program pays 70 percent matching funds, 10 percent more than the previous program.
       Crilly said he "cannot see any reason" why the district's first two applications would be upheld. They seek more than $8 million to perform work this summer at the Jefferson and Terra Nova campuses.
       Work would be done on the gymnasium and drama facilities at both schools, locker rooms and home economics rooms at Jefferson, and classrooms and shop areas at Terra Nova.
       Another application has been submitted for Westmoor that would renovate the school's classrooms, heating and ventilation system, bathrooms and science rooms in the summer of 2000.
       Crilly said there are plans to submit an application to renovate Oceana and Thornton in the summer of 2001.
       "All the schools will get the same improvements," Crilly said. "We look at what they need in terms of health and safety issues."

District-wide bond
       The state funding will supplement at $30 million bond that district voters passed in 1995. Crilly said roughly one-half of that money has been spent on the first phase of construction at Jefferson and Terra Nova.
       "Our bond was $30 million for the whole district," Crilly said. "We knew that wasn't enough, but we knew it was all we could ask for from the community and have a chance of expecting it to pass."
       By comparison, the San Mateo Union High School District last year proposed Measure B that would have provided more than $30 million to each of its six high schools. The measure narrowly failed, but will be put to a re-vote in May.