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Scotts Valley Unified highlights Measure O, facility upgrades and wellness center expansion
Summary
Superintendent Tanya Krauss and Board President Roger Snyder described Measure O’s narrow passage, $85 million in planned school improvements including solar and stadium work, rising special-education costs, declining enrollment trends, and a new high-school wellness center that has delivered hundreds of student interventions.
Scotts Valley Unified School District Superintendent Tanya Krauss and Board President Roger Snyder summarized district accomplishments, bond-funded projects and continuing budget challenges.
They said voters narrowly approved Measure O by 28 votes, authorizing about $85 million for facility upgrades. Projects under design or planned include solar installations (completed at four sites), multipurpose rooms at both elementary schools, playground replacements, safety and operations upgrades and stadium plans for Scotts Valley High School now under review at the Department of State Architects.
Krauss said enrollment is about 2,100 students districtwide (Vine Hill 546, middle school 471, high school 591). She and Snyder said the district remains among the lowest-funded unified districts in California because of the way state funding formulas and local property tax allocations interact; they cited rising special‑education costs and two years of state budget withholding that reduced expected state funding.
The district has launched a wellness center at Scotts Valley High School. Krauss reported the center served nearly 3,000 student interactions and logged more than 300 crisis interventions during its first full period of operation; she said the district will bill insurers for some services with parental consent to create a sustainable funding stream while maintaining free access for students whose families do not provide insurance information.
Why this matters: facility upgrades and the wellness center change assets and services available to students and the community; budget pressures and special‑education spending remain critical fiscal issues for district planning.
Krauss and Snyder also flagged the district’s ongoing focus on improving math instruction, maintaining attendance gains post‑pandemic and pursuing cost recovery and advocacy for formula changes through the California School Board Association.
