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Twin Rivers board reviews $430M in recent facilities work, staff outlines bond and nonbond funding
Summary
District facilities staff told the Twin Rivers Unified Board that the district has invested roughly $430 million in improvements over the past five years, detailed work funded by bonds and other sources, and described remaining needs and upcoming projects, including new schools and HVAC upgrades.
Twin Rivers Unified staff on Thursday presented the board with a multi-year accounting of completed and planned facilities work and the mix of funding sources that paid for it.
Facilities executive Ryan DeGiglio and colleagues said the district has invested roughly $430 million toward facility improvements since 2021, with bond funds covering major items such as roofing, HVAC replacements, hard courts and kitchen modernizations and other non-bond sources — developer fees, state grants and general fund allocations — covering additional projects. DeGiglio said bond-funded projects completed so far include more than $17 million in hard court and paving work and about $15 million in bond-funded HVAC replacements; staff also reported $7.7 million in roofing projects and roughly $16 million in kitchen modernizations drawn from bond dollars.
The presentation broke project spending into buckets and noted large ongoing needs. "We brought the revised long-range facilities master plan to you in 2024," DeGiglio said, adding the district identified more than $3.2 billion in facility needs but has met about 12 percent of those needs so far. "We've invested over $430 million toward facility improvements. Now that's tremendous progress, but it's only 12% of the needs."
Staff described non-bond projects as well, including frontage beautification ($~10 million), universal transitional kindergarten site work ($~40 million planned), restroom and staff lounge refreshes (about $13.3 million so far), and sports-complex improvements. Victoria Garcia, director of facilities construction and planning, said many projects were publicly bid and monitored: "There's always multiple bids coming in from multiple contractors to award the best price."
Trustees asked for a fund-by-fund breakdown. Trustee O'Connor requested a clearer slide showing what was paid from bond funds versus other funds. DeGiglio and Mark Staraci, executive director of general services, said the board would receive a breakdown by fund and noted that developer fees covered the $65 million Northlake TK–8 school that opened last year.
The presentation also previewed planning for future bond series (including Measure J series B and K) and described an allocation plan for new construction, HVAC, cafeteria and restroom upgrades. Staff said several projects remain in planning and that the district will return with further detail. The board received the update and asked staff to provide the more granular fund-by-fund accounting requested by trustees.
Next steps: staff will provide the requested breakdown of bonded and non-bonded expenditures and return with additional planning documents for upcoming bond series and projects.
