The new Orosi High School sports complex is an amazing facility for the high school and community. The expanded baseball, football and soccer facilities will greatly support the athletic, emotional and social development of the Orosi High School students.

“TETER is so excited to be a part of another great project with Cutler Orosi Joint Unified School District. We are especially pleased that the community will have use of these facilities for community sports and that everyone can use the splash park and exercise track. This new facility is another step toward completing the district facility master plan and a huge step towards “Building a Better Valley”. – Robert Thornton, TETER Partner and Architect of Record

Watch ABC30 Action News’ coverage of the grand opening ceremonies

Originally broadcast on ABC30 Action News on October 21, 2020

OROSI, Calif. (KFSN) — The Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School District celebrated their new sports complex on Tuesday.

The complex is located next to Orosi High School and includes a splash pad, playground, and fields for football, soccer, softball, and baseball.

The project is six years in the making, and was funded in part by Measure E.

Tulare County Supervisor Eddie Valero says it will be a place where the community’s youth can build relationships with peers and practice sportsmanship.

“This sports complex reflects the improvement to community and the wherewithal by leaders who dreamed big and worked hard to give back to Cutler and Orosi,” he added.

There’s still more to come for the school district. A new auditorium, aquatic complex, and gymnasium are in the planning stages.

News Story Credit: ABC Action News Brian Johnson

Raffi Soghomonian (COJUSD Maintenance Operations and Transportation Director) and Robert Thornton (TETER Partner & Architect)

Superintendent Yolanda Valdez points to the new Orosi Sports Park.

(Left to right): Mike Durant (TETER Construction Administrator), Arnoldo Espindola (TETER Project Manager), Yolanda Valdez (COJUSD Superintendent) and Robert Thornton (TETER Partner/Architect)

Ground breaking on New Sheriff’s HQ, designed by TETER, is featured on ABC30 Action News.

Originally broadcast on ABC30 Action News on October 5, 2020 by Jason Oliveria

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Kings County is getting a new sheriff’s headquarters in Hanford.

Officials broke ground Monday on the more than $8 million project that will also feature a community room for the public.

County leaders joined Sheriff David Robinson for the ceremonial turning of the dirt at the building’s future location near the jailhouse.

“As far as my career goes and my last ten years as sheriff, this is definitely a career highlight and it’s pretty amazing,” said Sheriff David Robinson.

Kings County Sheriff David Robinson

The new facility will double the current bulding’s size to about 15,000 square feet and will cost $8.2 million.

Assemblymember Rudy Salas is credited with securing $7 million from Sacramento to help make the project a reality.

“This will be a more permanent place for the sheriff’s office and hopefully will be a solution for the next 50-plus years, so I’m very proud to be a part of that,” said Assemblymember Salas.

Assemblymember Rudy Salas

“With the support of the Board of Supervisors on a 5-0 vote, they voted to add $1.2 million more to this project to make sure this project got done,” said Sheriff Robinson.

The department has operated out of its current building on Lacey Boulevard since 1964 and when the new jail was built in 2007, the jail and headquarters were separated.

The new facility will be located next to the jail, making it easier to book suspects or for employees to walk from one building to the next.

“Now that they’re literally going to be next-door neighbors and right next to each other, it’s going to bring more efficiency in. We have managers that will be able to communicate directly and within just a few steps, we’re going to have people that can communicate and work together on things,” said Sheriff Robinson.

Construction will begin right away with an estimated completion date by early 2022.

News Story Credit: ABC Action News Reporter Jason Oliveira

Navigation Homeless Shelter, a TETER project, is featured on KSEE 24 News.

Originally broadcast on KSEE 24 News on September 1, 2020 by Angelica Lei Lani

MERCED, Calif.  (KSEE) — On Tuesday, in Merced County, a new navigation center was unveiled. The center will focus on helping house those who are homeless and provide them services.

The goal of this project is to give people who are homeless a safe temporary place to stay in modified shipping containers.

If you drive around the Valley you might see people who are homeless taking up residence along the freeway embankments, side streets, rivers, and parks. Homelessness has been an ongoing-growing issue.

“What we’d like to do is get these people out of those public spaces and get them on a track to getting their lives back together,” said Lloyd Pareira with the Merced County Board of Supervisors for District 4.

That place will soon be in Merced County, near B and 15th Streets, at a new low barrier temporary shelter made up of these modified shipping containers.

“Its purpose is to have a place where homeless people can go, in a congregate setting, fairly low barrier, and that way the county caseworkers and other nonprofits that are working with the homeless to try and help them get their lives back on track have a place to build a relationship with them,” Pareira said. 

This project started about three years ago, several services are nearby from behavioral health to the public health department.

The funds are coming from the state with the help of Assemblymember Adam Gray, local and other grants.

“It’s $6.48 million which includes all the site work, purchasing the facility, and then having it installed and put together so it’ll be turn-key at the end of that time and then it will take about $1.7 million a year to operate it,” he said.

This facility is modeled after a low-barrier shelter in southern California’s Buena Park. It’ll be able to house up to 150 people, but because of COVID-19, they’ll have to start with about 66.

It will also provide veterinarian services for the pets of those staying here. Officials say they hope to have this opened by the end of this year.

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