Pajaro Valley Unified School District Sustainable Schools Advisory Meeting 11/03/2026

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Sustainable Schools Advisory Meeting on November 3, 2026, focused on the committee’s role and deliverables in the district’s school-consolidation process. Members debated whether their recommendations should name specific schools or instead define an optimal program model (OPM), closure counts, and evaluation criteria. They discussed developing a rubric that could assess factors such as facility condition and safety, neighborhood access and travel distance, equity, accessibility, academic programs, and community engagement. The district is expected to use the committee’s input to develop scenario options and analyze their impacts for presentation to the school board, with January discussed as a target. The transcript reflects no formal contract awards, purchasing decisions, or procurement votes.

Members also raised possible financial and program impacts to consider in comparing scenarios, including hypothetical facility-repair figures of $15 million and $30 million, property values, and the potential loss or change of school-site funding associated with ACES/21st Century programs and ELOP. These were discussion points, not approved budget allocations or spending actions. The committee discussed continuing rubric development and evaluating additional grade-level scenarios; no specific school closures were selected in this meeting.