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Operations and police outline facility maintenance, transportation, and school safety projects
Summary
Operations and police leaders summarized custodial and maintenance organization, transportation fleet and routes, facilities work, and school safety investments, including a large state safety grant and campus hardening efforts.
Chief Operations Officer Stacy Pearson and Police Chief Manuel Chavira briefed trustees on operations, facilities, transportation and school safety upgrades.
Chief Chavira said the police services unit staffs district schools with sworn officers assigned to each middle and high school and patrols feeder‑pattern elementary campuses; the unit also runs a 911 dispatch center with nine licensed telecommunicators. He reiterated that district officers should not be assigned routine classroom discipline or clerical duties.
“We assign an officer to each of our middle schools and our high schools, and then they patrol the feeder pattern elementary schools from there,” Chief Chavira said.
Chief Pearson said operations now manages about 1,200 employees in custodial, maintenance, print shop, transportation and facilities/construction. Highlights presented included a centralized custodial schedule, maintenance preventive inspections, a print shop that operates on a self‑funded model, and a transportation fleet of 262 buses serving roughly 10,000 students daily. The maintenance division’s annual budget line for utilities was described as approximately $14 million.
Pearson said the district received a large state safety grant (presenters said the district was awarded $34 million and had about $31 million earmarked so far) to support campus safety projects and that operations and police are coordinating on implementation of campus hardening projects, visitor management (Raptor), monitored alarms, surveillance cameras and panic‑alarm rollouts.
“We operate safe, clean and efficient learning environments…we support student success through reliable services, sustainability and continual improvement,” Pearson said.
Trustees were told each campus receives quality‑assurance facility visits and that operations will continue to provide timelines and project managers for capital and bond‑funded work.
