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The Pleasanton Unified School District Board of Trustees is in for a wide-ranging discussion at a regular meeting Thursday.
The trustees are set to talk over options for reducing expenditures, amid current deficit spending.
To be fiscally solvent in the 2025-26 fiscal year and maintain the required 3% reserve, the district must make a minimum reduction of about $5.56 million in that year, followed by another $220,000 in the 2026-27 fiscal year, according to the agenda.
The board will also discuss options for recruitment and selection of a permanent superintendent, since the contract for interim superintendent Maurice Ghysels ends on May 31, 2025.
Trustees are set to ratify an agreement between PUSD and the Classified School Employees Association Chapter 155 for the 2024-25 fiscal year. The tentative agreement includes an increase of $1,097.88 annually in health and welfare benefits for members participating in a district medical plan starting in January 2025.
As for facility and construction projects, trustees will cover subjects including the Amador Valley High School campus renovation project, the Village High School education options center, the Pleasanton Middle School athletic complex project and its field renovation project as well as new TK complexes at Donlon and Fairlands Elementary Schools.
The project design at Amador includes a new performing arts center; remodeling of the existing competition gym into a practice gym and locker rooms; construction of a new athletic facility, including a new competition gym; modernization of the existing music building and associate site work and landscaping to support the new facilities.
The trustees will select one of two firms — Blach Construction or Core Construction — to provide architectural services at Amador, in conjunction with Quattrocchi Kwok Architects (QKA) and Gensler Architects. Staff recommends choosing Blach Construction.
Staff also recommends the board approve and award the design and build agreement to Blach Construction, QKA, and Gensler for the amount of $85,157,949.
Similarly, staff recommends trustees approve a contract with Clark Sullivan Construction and JKE Architects for the construction and design of the Educational Options Center at Village costing $34,843,101. Funding is available through Measure I.
Design of that center includes facilities for Village designed to support a positive and engaging educational environment; spaces for the Pleasanton Virtual Academy distance learning program; areas for the adult transition program to support independent living and productivity for students aged 18-22 with special needs; and integration of sustainable features such as drought-tolerant landscaping, bio-retention areas and a campus design that reflects Pleasanton, according to the agenda.
For Pleasanton Middle School, staff recommends that the board approve the lease-leaseback agreements with Robert A. Bothman for the athletic complex project, authorizing the contractor to use the site for construction and covering the contractor’s delivery of the project. The cost associated with these agreements will be presented at a future board meeting, according to the agenda.
Also for Pleasanton Middle School, the board is set to consider purchase of synthetic turf for its field renovation project for $681,277. Funding is also available through Measure I.
A contract with Sausal Corporation, for construction of the TK complexes at Fairlands and Donlon Elementary schools is also up for consideration. Construction would cost $20,067,600, with funding available through Measure I and I1.
At Fairlands, the project is set to include four new TK Classrooms, bathrooms, storage space, TK playground, kindergarten playground and enhancements to the existing front entry. At Donlon, the project is set to include three new TK Classrooms, bathrooms, storage space, TK playground and parking lot area.
The Pleasanton Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting is set at 4 p.m. on Thursday (Jan. 16) at the PUSD office. The agenda is available here.
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story contained a misspelling of Gensler Architects, the Weekly regrets the error.
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