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Trustee urges community engagement as district confronts declining enrollment
Summary
Trustee Lorenzo Luevano raised concerns about ongoing enrollment decline and asked administration to develop objective options, including campus consolidation and a possible bond; the board asked administration to prepare information and avoid public disagreement before community outreach.
Trustee Lorenzo Luevano told the board that continuing enrollment decline requires a discussion and options from administration. Luevano asked the district to prepare objective analyses, highlighting consolidation of campuses and a potential bond as options to sustain district finances in the future.
Superintendent Dr. Jeannie Meza-Chavez and Trustee Eduardo Chavez both said administration will prepare information and recommended engaging the community before formal recommendations. "As a first step, it would be helpful if the district had a community and discussed declining enrollment," Dr. Jeannie Meza-Chavez said; she warned the ultimate decision "will probably not be a popular one" but is needed to sustain the district.
