Santa Cruz City Schools officials say they’re slowly progressing on plans to repurpose the Pacific Cultural Center – located across the street from Gault Elementary School at Seabright Avenue and Broadway – after purchasing it in June for about $2.6 million.
Spokesperson Sam Rolens told Lookout the district is still waiting on a seismic analysis of the building to know whether it meets standards required by the Division of the State Architect for buildings that students and teachers use. Structural engineers told the district they doubt it will meet the standards.
“It’s under very stringent structural requirements,” Rolens said. “It really, really has to be very reinforced and very seismically sound. So we’ve had to do a number of studies to assess how seismically sound this space is, and none of them are yet conclusive.”…