The Pleasanton faculty board shall be trying to approve one in all three completely different elementary faculty boundary adjustment situations and align the center faculty boundaries with the elementary faculty throughout Thursday’s board assembly.
Again within the fall of 2020, the Pleasanton Unified Faculty District Board of Trustees determined to not proceed with plans to construct a tenth elementary faculty which was initially listed within the $270 million Measure I1 bond mission listing that voters handed in 2016.
In line with Thursday’s workers report, that call was made resulting from declining enrollment and monetary concerns.
As an alternative, the board directed workers to develop a plan that may modify the elementary faculty boundaries to deal with enrollment imbalances and scholar overflow points.
Workers had begun that work in the summertime and fall of 2021 earlier than placing the method on pause with a purpose to tackle town’s Housing Factor replace and to additionally obtain post-COVID enrollment projections.
Then final summer time, workers relaunched their efforts by assembling a Boundary Technical Committee and a bigger stakeholder committee of fogeys, instructor affiliation representatives, directors and metropolis illustration.
“A number of conferences had been held, and three situations had been developed,” in keeping with the workers report. “Throughout this course of, we found that modifying the elementary faculty boundaries additionally impacts the center faculty boundaries, leading to wanted changes to each boundaries, in order that they align with one another.”
The Board of Trustees will now be selecting a kind of three boundary adjustment situations on Thursday — district workers are recommending that the board go together with the fourth state of affairs.
In every state of affairs, college students at Lydiksen, Donlon and Fairlands Elementary Faculties shall be fed into Hart Center Faculty, college students at Walnut Grove, Alisal, and Mohr Elementary Faculties will feed into Harvest Park Center Faculty and college students at Hearst, Valley View, and Classic Hills Elementary Faculties will feed into Pleasanton Center Faculty.
The one distinction between every of the situations, in keeping with the workers presentation from Thursday’s agenda, is the quantity of outgoing elementary faculty college students being assigned to their new center faculty boundaries.
That phasing into the brand new boundaries will even be a part of an implementation plan that the board will even be reviewing and presumably accepting on Thursday.
Some items of that implementation plan embody assigning transitional kindergarten and kindergarten college students to their new residential colleges starting July 1 and getting future sixth-graders to attend the center faculty of their new boundaries by subsequent yr.
In line with the workers report, workers shall be finding out the highschool boundaries over the subsequent yr earlier than they’ll current a plan to the board in 2024.
The board’s open-session assembly is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. Thursday (March 23). Learn the complete agenda right here.
In different enterprise:
District workers shall be asking the varsity board to inexperienced gentle a mission that may develop new outside areas for each the Horizon Early Schooling Middle and STEAM Preschool websites.
Each of the early studying applications, that are presently situated on the PUSD district headquarters on Bernal Avenue, had obtained supplemental funding final month within the quantity of $295,500 as a part of an modification to the Inclusive Early Schooling Enlargement Program grant that the district had beforehand obtained.
The brand new funding was meant for the “growth and elevated entry to high quality early training alternatives for kids with and with out disabilities.”
“At each areas, enhancements to the outside play house are wanted to make sure accessibility and applicable adaptive outside tools,” in keeping with the district workers report. “As a brand new California State Preschool Program, our contract mandates that 10% of our enrolled youngsters are youngsters with distinctive wants.”
Ross Recreation Gear, a playground tools provider in Santa Rosa, has already developed designs for the proposed outside play areas at each websites, in keeping with the report.
“The designs use the prevailing outside footprint, avoids main renovation, and consists of tools that may be eliminated and reinstalled at one other location,” the workers report states.
The truth that they are often reinstalled is crucial provided that the district plans on shifting each applications to Harvest Park Center Faculty the place all early studying applications shall be a part of one unified Early Studying Middle.
The overall value for this new outside areas mission shall be about $197,160 however will once more be totally funded by the Inclusive Early Schooling Enlargement Program grant.
* After almost a yr since PUSD acquired property on the Arroyo Middle to function the brand new district headquarters, the varsity board is lastly set to approve a building bid that may formally kick off the transition into the brand new house.
On July 14, 2022, the Board of Trustees accepted a decision authorizing Superintendent David Haglund to accumulate the two-building property situated on 5758 and 5794 West Las Positas Blvd.
The primary part of the acquisition course of, which was additionally accomplished on July 14, offered the board with preliminary design concepts and preliminary pricing plans to help the district in acquiring value estimates for the tenant enhancements.
In complete, the acquisition of the complicated, also called the Arroyo Middle, will value $23,480,261 for the district to accumulate from the present proprietor, ECI 4 Arroyo LLC.
The district will preserve three acres of the present district headquarters on the sting of downtown Pleasanton, at 4645 and 4665 Bernal Ave., whereas the remainder of the seven acres shall be put up on the market.
That property was lately estimated in worth between $31 million and $34 million, which might assist repay the newly bought Arroyo Middle.
The district additionally accepted an up to date lease settlement through the July 14 assembly for the only real tenant presently renting a portion of the Arroyo Middle, electron microscopy agency Gatan Inc. — which might make the district the owner of the lease going ahead after escrow closes on the acquisition.
The corporate will start paying the district about $80,000 beginning subsequent yr each month from now till 2027.
Since then, DSK Architects, the agency employed by the district for $267,718, have been finishing building paperwork, which included tenant enchancment layouts and contents, company approvals, bidding and building plans.
Of the various building bidders, workers is now recommending that the board approve an settlement with JD Common Development, Inc. for the quantity of $5,325,630.00.
In line with the workers report, JD Common Development has efficiently accomplished work for the district previously and their bid is throughout the acceptable vary of the district’s estimate for the tenant enchancment mission.
“Pending the plan approval by town of Pleasanton the week of March 20, 2023, the development interval is anticipated between March 28, 2023 via early July 2023,” in keeping with the workers report. “The district will subsequently have furnishings delivered and put in, and can start shifting in July 2023 earlier than the beginning of faculty opening in August 2023.”
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