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Laguna Beach USD staff brief board on facilities master plan and funding options including potential bond

Laguna Beach Unified School District Board of Education · December 17, 2025
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Summary

District staff presented the 2023 facilities master plan update, energy master plan and funding choices — including a potential general obligation bond (~$81–82M at $8.85 per $100,000 assessed value) or Certificates of Participation (~$34M capacity) — and outlined polling, bond counsel and timeline steps if the board pursues a ballot measure.

The Laguna Beach Unified School District received an informational briefing Dec. 16 on its 2023 facilities master plan, an energy master plan and a range of funding options that could be used to finance campus modernization and infrastructure work.

Ryan Zadeh, the district's director of facilities, explained the master plan is a 10‑year roadmap last updated in 2023 and described proposed projects by campus: El Morro (new one‑story classroom and kitchen, TK/K modernization, playfield upgrades); Top of the World (new central lunch shelter, kitchen, restrooms); Thurston (gym expansion, black box theater upgrades); Laguna Beach High School (administrative/counseling building, theater, CT and art classroom updates); and lower‑priority district office modernization.

Zadeh also summarized the 2024 energy master plan, which identifies solar…

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