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The Pleasanton Unified School district Board of Trustees will be reviewing the district’s current fiscal position — along with the state’s budget, ongoing budget reductions and efforts to enhance PUSD’s revenues — during a special board meeting Thursday.
Trustees will have a chance to ask staff questions in regards to five key areas: PUSD’s fiscal condition, fiscal oversight, budget management and reduction efforts, revenue outlook and options, and advocacy efforts that include increasing enrollment.
According to the Jan. 22 presentation, some of the financial information that staff will be presenting includes declining enrollment data, information on how its structural deficit has “eroded our unrestricted reserves”, increased costs across several categories and the fact that PUSD receives very low funding from the state’s Local Control Funding Formula.
Staff will also be going over its efforts to increase enrollment by offering more support for parents with after school care and education programming, trying to bring in more transitional kindergarten students along with standard kindergarten students, and reaching out to businesses and realtors, just to name a few.
No formal action will be taken on any of these topics.
The board’s open-session meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 22). Read the full agenda here.
In other business:
Staff will be asking the board to review and accept the district’s student enrollment forecast for the 2025/26 to 2032/33 school years.
This data, which is developed by MGT Impact Solutions every year, projects PUSD’s enrollment for the next seven years and it currently shows that enrollment will continue to decline as transitional kindergarten and standard kindergarten classes continue to get smaller while larger graduating classes continue to be the “main drivers.”
“MGT utilizes a variety of data points, including local birth rates, district-specific student yield factors based on housing type, mobility factor (incoming/outgoing students), and new housing, to determine its projections,” according to the staff report. “PUSD continues to be a destination school district as the data shows, with added students after (transitional kindergarten/kindergarten) years through the mobility factor and migration to our school district, but at a lower rate than in the past.”
Staff will also go over its efforts to ramp up enrollment, which include “increased community communication and outreach to local businesses to attract students from parents who work in Pleasanton.”
According to the report, the long term fiscal impact of the declining enrollment will be realized over time. Staff wrote in the report that for every 100 students that don’t enroll, that is about a $1.13 million revenue loss for the district.
