In February 2019, staff from Alameda County Department of Environmental Health (ACDEH) informed the District that ACDEH would be closing the Emma Hood Swim Center, located at Alameda High School, as of May 31, 2019, for health and safety concerns. 

Since then, ACDEH has agreed to reopen the swimming pool upon completion of certain short-term repairs and further directed that the City and AUSD must provide certain timelines and milestones to construct a new swimming facility by June 30, 2019, and AUSD and the City must start construction of the facility by May 2022; thereafter, ACDEH will permanently close the existing Swim Center. 

The funding for immediate, short-term repairs has been authorized by AUSD and the City.  AUSD staff will coordinate permits and manage the repairs, which will occur this summer.  The Emma Hood Swim Center will be closed until these repairs are completed.

This MOU serves to provide deal points that AUSD and the City have agreed upon for a new Aquatic Facility.  It does not include the specifics on an agreement between AUSD and the City if the City is interested in constructing such facility on school district property, such as at the existing site at Alameda High School.  Both AUSD and the City will continue to work through negotiations, with the intent to have a final property agreement by no later than December, 2019. 

This MOU serves as a bridge document to memorialize the agreed upon issues that will be then included in the final property agreement.  Once the property agreement is fully executed, this MOU will no longer be in effect.