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District staff begin exhaustive facilities needs assessment; list to return to board by March
Summary
Executive director Stacy Selvain and superintendent Battle outlined a plan to gather a comprehensive facilities needs list and bring options to a design team and the board; staff will return with an exhaustive list and recommended scope by late March 2025.
Superintendent Dr. Battle and Stacy Selvain, executive director of administrative services, presented an update and timeline for long-term facility planning in a Jan. 23 work session, detailing next steps to gather building-level needs and to engage design teams and community input.
Selvain said district leadership walked every building in November with administrators and directors to gather preliminary observations and will complete Building Leadership Team (BLT) meetings through February. Staff intend to return with an exhaustive needs-assessment list by late March 2025. That list will be needs-only (not solutions), after which staff will seek board guidance on scope and budget to allow a design team to formulate options that balance safety, instructional needs and cost-effectiveness.
Identified categories of need include front-entrance structural changes and secure entry redesigns, enclosing open-concept spaces with full-height walls and classroom doors where appropriate, reworking parent pickup and bus drop-off zones, expanding primary-age bathrooms and secure early-childhood entrances, enterprise infrastructure (wiring, cameras, communications), and athletic-field and Moras Center upgrades. Staff explained that some items would be funded through Long Term Facility Maintenance (LTFM), operations, Safe Schools or special-education budgets; others may exceed LTFM scope and require dedicated capital investment or bonds.
Board members pressed for how the needs list will be evaluated. Stacy Selvain said the design team will assess impact, cost and return on investment and bring multiple options for board consideration. Directors also discussed the district’s current fund balance, declining enrollment trends and the prudence of pursuing a bond versus using reserves; staff emphasized this is an early-stage planning process and that the board would set scope and funding direction after the needs assessment and community input.
Next steps: staff will complete site BLT meetings, gather athletic-community input, produce the exhaustive needs list by late March, and then begin design-team option development and community engagement.
