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District seeks multi-year data before pursuing $40 million master-plan referendum
Summary
Committee members said they support facility improvements but asked administration to compile multi-year enrollment and program participation data before advancing a potential referendum. Members debated whether to pursue the full $40 million master plan or a smaller $8–10 million referendum focused on maintenance and limited expansion.
The Operations Committee discussed the district’s long-range facilities master plan and emphasized the need for multi-year, data-driven justification before asking voters to approve major construction or expansion. Members requested detailed information including multi-year enrollment trends for Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses, unduplicated student participation counts in Agriculture, Technology Education, Business and Media programs, percentages of the student body participating by program, and historical growth trends rather than single-year figures.
Committee members raised concerns about the $40 million estimate for the current master plan, noting that while infrastructure needs such as HVAC, boilers, security and building systems have broad support, additions like expanded CTE and new specialized spaces require stronger evidence of sustained demand. Some members suggested a smaller referendum in the $8–10 million range focused primarily on maintenance and limited expansion could be more realistic; administration agreed to compile the requested data but cautioned that assembling accurate historical figures will take additional time.
