Owned by the City, which purchased the site from Palo Alto Unified School District in 1980, Ventura is literally crumbling away. Included in the plan is an entirely new Intergenerational Center, that will be home both to Avenidas's Senior Day Health Center for the frail elderly and to an enlarged Sojourner Truth Child Development Center for preschoolers, infants and toddlers. Dutton stresses that every single agency currently occupying the Ventura site will be housed at the new facility. The prospect of an intergenerational community center in the Ventura neighborhood is tremendously exciting. The City owns the site.
Timing is critical.
I am cautiously optimistic that, because of the recent positive actions of the City Council, we will be able to make this project happen. Us Leave No Child Behind , exemplifies this critically important part of our mission. When the time comes to make their monthly child care payment, some of our single parents, for example, are, financially speaking, right up against the ropes. Well in advance of the new school year we'll be notifying families how they can apply. Kids are so great.