For the first time in several years, it felt like things were getting into a routine when it came to school, Berkeley parent Rebecca Sherer said. So when she opened her email on June 14 and found a letter from the school announcing the campus was red-tagged and will likely be closed for at least the next two school years because of dry rot damage so severe that it threatens structural integrity of the main building, she was taken aback.
According to school district leaders, workers found the dry rot on June 7 upon removing stucco from the southern facade of the campus' main academic building, which they were doing as part of a project to replace windows. The supports of the building are crumbling, district leaders said in a memo posted to the district website, and although damage has only been verified on the southern face at this time, the structural integrity of this building has been compromised to the point that the structural engineers have red-tagged the building.
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