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Burbank Unified staff outline bond-series priorities: roofing and tech top series 1; committee presses for clearer costs and inventory
Summary
Facilities staff updated the committee on bond-series planning, listing roofing and tech infrastructure as top series 1 priorities, noting a roughly $40M first-series balance; members pressed for more precise cost tags, an inventory of emergent projects and clearer ranking criteria.
Burbank Unified's facilities staff told the SFOC they are prioritizing roofing and technology upgrades in the first bond series and that they will bring a Burroughs High field replacement quote to the school board for consideration.
"For the current series for this year, we're looking at that $18,000,000 mark," a staff member said while reviewing the series table and priority matrix. Staff said a $47 million roofing allocation appears in planning figures and that the district has roughly a $40 million balance in the first series, though several line items lacked finalized cost estimates.
Committee members repeatedly urged staff to fill missing price tags and to re-check the district inventory after the newly identified Burroughs emergency. "If we ranked everything, but we only knew 50% of the potential projects and potential needs, the value of the ranking is challenged," a committee member said, urging a reassessment of the inventory and a re-run of prioritization.
Staff described program-management and oversight needs for a multi-series bond program and said they are exploring hybrid program-management options and internal positions funded partially by bond resources. The presentation laid out potential roles (director of bond projects, fiscal compliance supervisor, position-control analyst) and discussed how split-funded positions would be tracked via monthly PAR documentation.
Members flagged specific cost items they believed to be understated, including ADA/front-entry estimates and elevator work, and asked for clearer presentation of general-fund impacts for split-funded positions. Facilities staff acknowledged discrepancies in the facility master plan and said some escalation factors in earlier plans may not reflect current market realities.
Next steps: staff will refine series cost estimates, share HVAC inspection reports and related prioritization, present the Burroughs field replacement proposal to the board, and continue monthly updates to the committee.
