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A delayed district planning proposal is back on the agenda for Peralta Community College Trustees Tuesday night, when trustees will consider authorizing a six-month contract with Scala Design & Development company. 

The trustees meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Peralta headquarters at 333 East Eighth St. in Oakland, with broadcast on Channel 18 in Berkeley and Channel 28 in Oakland. 

Last December, on a motion by Trustee Nicky González Yuen, trustees tabled Chancellor Elihu Harris’ request for the $45,000 Scala contract, which would have given the Oakland-based company six months to prepare a district-wide Land Use Development report. 

Yuen said at the time that he made the tabling motion “because we need to take a slight step back in this process.” Trustees had complained, in part, that the Scala proposal did not include a resume for Scala principal Atheria Smith, and that trustees did not have enough information as to how the Scala proposal would be integrated with the district’s long-range plans. 

At the same December meeting, Harris announced that he had killed a proposed contract with IPA Solutions for a facilities management plan, and had chosen not to move forward with a Laney athletic fields development plan contract with Strategic Urban De velopment Alliance. 

Also at Tuesday’s meeting, trustees will hear a report from Chief Financial Officer Thomas Smith on the impacts of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposals on the Peralta District. 

—J. Douglas Allen-Taylore›