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Issue: School Land
After several months of facing eviction, charities based at the Rea Community Center learned this week that their headquarters will be safe for at least one more year.
On Tuesday, trustees of Newport-Mesa Unified School District voted to extend the lease of the 11 nonprofit agencies that use the former school site on the city’s west side.
District officials have considered reopening the Rea center as a school campus to ease overcrowding at elementary schools in the city, and board members said they might still have to do that but such action is not imminent.
“We can’t put too many more portables at schools on the west side,” Trustee Wendy Leece said, “but we are not sure yet that Rea is the answer to overcrowding. It is still possible that we may never reopen Rea.”
--COMPILED BY JOHN POPE AND HOPE HAMASHIGE
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