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Sahuarita Unified board approves $1.23 million playground GMP, signs IGAs and routine updates
Summary
The Sahuarita Unified District board approved a $1,229,230 guaranteed maximum price for playground and courtyard upgrades under the 2023 bond, approved an IGA for the town’s summer arts program, several procurement and fee updates, and confirmed routine consent items. The board also appointed two principals effective July 1, 2026.
The Sahuarita Unified District governing board on March 2026 approved a series of routine but budgeted actions, including a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) of $1,229,230 for courtyard and playground upgrades across multiple schools funded through the district's 2023 bond program.
Superintendent Dr. Manuel Valenzuela told the board the GMP with CORE Construction and Swaim and Associates covers playground structures, turf and landscape work at several sites so students will have upgraded amenities when school resumes in the fall. "This program has enhancements that are playground structures ... the goal is to get this going and to get it done so that when our students come back in the fall they'll have these new amenities," Valenzuela said. The board voted to approve the GMP on a motion and second.
In the same meeting the board approved an intergovernmental agreement with the town to restart the youth summer arts program, a sole-source designation for Arizona DECA, and an addition to facility rental rates to allow rental of a short-throw projector at $115 per day. The superintendent said the arts program is a long-standing community partnership that pays student participants and is funded and procured through the town.
Other procedural approvals included updates to the board’s meeting schedule to accommodate renovations of the district facility (with summer meetings to be held at the Sahuarita Middle School library), and action on several policy advisory revisions tied to finance, procurement and operations. A routine consent agenda of standard district business was approved in bulk.
Board members emphasized local control and the community's support for facilities work. Trustee comments noted that many district buildings were constructed in eras when capital funding did not cover amenities such as swings and modern surfacing, and praised the community for supporting bonds and overrides that allow local upgrades.
The board took the votes by motion and voice; individual roll-call tallies were not read into the record for these items. There were no executive-session actions reported and the board adjourned with its next regular meeting scheduled for April 8.
