District operations staff gave an update on the Facilities Vision to guide capital planning through 2035, presenting cost estimates, scenarios and a community-engagement timeline.

"We have high school stadium upgrades, and that comes in at 11,400,000.0," the operations presenter said when outlining facilities priorities, which included bathrooms, concessions and team rooms aimed at achieving equity between Lakeville North and South.

For alternative learning-center (ALC) space, the district presented a concept sited at Lakeville South. The ALC concept was budgeted at $15,300,000 with an approximate build time of 17 months and a design that would keep the program separate but provide access to curricular resources at the high school.

Staff framed options to address middle-school capacity as either expanding current middle schools or building a fourth middle school, and discussed trade-offs including land acquisition, retrofit costs for older buildings and timeline/operational impacts. Staff said an advisory group of about 10 people plus educator input and a Morris Leatherman community survey will inform final priorities.

Board members pressed staff on advisory-group representativeness and asked for clearer documentation of priorities and RFIs; some directors favored expansion of three middle schools while others preferred considering a new-build option or creative reuse of existing leased space. Directors also discussed equity concerns for locating new amenities (for example, a performing-arts center proposed at Century Middle School) and asked staff to model attendance-area impacts and tax burdens associated with proposed bond or levy timing.

Next steps: staff will collate educator input, publish the advisory group's recommendations and return to the board with refined priorities in the December work sessions and a broader community-survey report in early December so the board can consider options in January.