BUENA PARK, CA—Voters in Buena Park Elementary School District have approved a $71 million bond measure to upgrade aging school facilities of the and implement a plan of the governing board and superintendent to bring facilities on line with 21^st century learning environments.

Earlier this year, the school district approved architect BCA Architects' Long Range Facilities Master Plan for their schools in a unanimous vote. Buena Park was particularly interested in working with BCA Architects because of the firm's focus on campus safety/security in design and 21st century education, not to mention the firm's two educators on staff, Devorah Merling, and Edwin Diaz. BCA's master plan aspires to bring the district to the highest level of 21st century learning.

"BCA led extensive outreach efforts to each of the school sites and each site community while defining the future direction of the District's facilities through the Long Range Master Plan," said Paul Bunton, president of BCA Architects. “We had multiple planning sessions with the school board, Superintendent and Cabinet, teachers and parents in each school community. It was the boards goal, as well as ours, to build consensus throughout the District on a unified direction for the master plan, one that is truly designed for, and by, the community.”