Facilities Planning Steering Committee Update No. 4 | Wednesday, March 20, 2024

PSD Long-Range Planning Update

To keep our community informed about long-range planning efforts, we will send an update after each meeting of and presentation by the PSD Facilities Planning Steering Committee to the school board.

You can find all committee updates and additional communications on the Long-Range Planning web section. To translate the update into a language other than English, scroll to the top of the web page, click on “Translate / Traducción / 번역 / 翻译 / ترجمة,” and select a language. See below to review key takeaways from Tuesday's meeting.

Read more about Tuesday's committee presentation and how you can participate in community engagement on the PSD website.>>

Key Takeaways

• Board presentation - On Tuesday, representatives from the Facilities Planning Steering Committee presented the PSD Board of Education the group's first draft of scenarios for addressing projected enrollment declines through school consolidation and boundary changes. The presentation can be viewed on YouTube.>>
• Four scenarios – The volunteer committee has created four possible scenarios, which they presented to board members for the first time on Tuesday. These are not final. Follow the links provided on the Facilities Planning Steering Committee page under "Possible options presented to Board of Education" to review Scenario A1, Scenario A2, Scenario B, and Scenario C.>>
• What's next

1. The committee will gather community input through a series of listening session in March and April, as well as a questionnaire and engagement with students. More information about the listening sessions and the questionnaire can be found at this link on the PSD website.>>
2. The Board of Education will host its own listening sessions on April 16 and June 4. Times and locations for the board listening sessions are posted on the PSD website at this link.>>
3. The committee will continue to meet and return to board meetings for presentations on April 23 and May 28.
4. The board will make a decision regarding the committee's recommendations at their June 11 meeting.