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Published on 01/05/1998 All articles from this issue

No progress on alternative CSMA site, but more time to find one

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By Linda Taaffe / Town Crier Staff Writer

The Community School of Music and Arts may have a reprieve, but officials still don't have a promising lead on a needed alternate facility. The Mountain View-based school must clear out of its current space on Martens Avenue to make way for the reopening of Huff School.

The nonprofit school originally was slated to leave its 10-year location this April, after the Mountain View School District decided to reopen Huff by this fall because of growing enrollment.

But in a surprise decision Nov. 3, board members extended the music school's lease to this June on five of its classrooms and to June 1999 on its multipurpose room.

Evy Schiffman, the music school's communications director, said the district's extension is significant because it will enable the school to provide private music lessons in the acoustically altered multipurpose room for another year. She described private lessons as being the school's core program, with more than 500 students participating in sessions each week.

"The district's decision at least gives us a reprieve,"Schiffman said.

Schiffman said the individual classrooms that must be abandoned this spring are where the school holds its week-long holiday and summer camps.

She said as many as 1,000 students enroll in the summer sessions each year.

She said the school is desperately looking for a site to hold its music camp programs.