Citizen and board committees

Key facts

• Facilities committee (CFAC): wrote a project list of about $708 million over four years, or about $591 million over three.¹
• Short-life items in that list: about $89.8 million, for devices, software and buses.²
• Bond oversight committee: proposed uses for bond money left over from finished projects.³
• Audit committee: created in Feb. 2023. It recommended Gibson as the outside firm for internal audits, subject to contract negotiation.⁴

In short

Committees give advice; the board decides. The facilities committee’s next-bond list is about $708 million over four years.¹ About $89.8 million of it is for things that wear out fast, like devices and buses.²

Why it matters to your tax bill: the facilities list is the starting point for the size of a next bond.

Related: next bond · short life on long loans · internal auditor

Layer 1: What committees do

Committees give advice. The board makes the final decision.

• The facilities committee looks at buildings and says what the next bond should pay for.
• The bond oversight committee follows bond projects. It suggests what to do with money left over.
• The audit committee oversees the internal auditor.

Layer 2: What they have recommended

Next-bond list. The facilities committee’s list is about $708 million over four years.¹ About $89.8 million of it is for things that wear out fast. That is $44.3 million for devices, $13.0 million for software, $20.1 million for 106 buses and $12.4 million for other items.² School bond loans are often paid back over decades.

Leftover bond money. The oversight committee and staff proposed:³

Date	Use	Amount
Jan. 26, 2023	Traffic signal	$500,000
Aug. 10, 2023	Projector replacements	$125,000
Feb. 1, 2024	Toward a county road widening	$2,000,000
May 23, 2024	Three transportation service vehicles	$144,000

Layer 3: Who picks the members

We have not yet found the rules for how members are chosen.

The audit committee ran a request for qualifications in 2023 and got 3 responses. It recommended Gibson Consulting Group.⁴

The other side

• Committees bring in parents and community members, which gives the board more voices than staff alone.
• Items that need board approval still go to a public board vote.

Questions to ask

• How does the board choose members for each committee?
• Where does each committee post its minutes?

Changes to this page

• Nov. 2, 2026: We changed wording so it says no more than our sources show.
• Nov. 2, 2026: Added questions to ask.

What you can do or watch next

• Watch for committee recommendations on board agendas.
• You can ask how to apply when the district seeks committee members.

What we don’t know yet

• How members are chosen for each committee.
• Whether the oversight committee publishes minutes.
• Which bond’s leftover money paid for the 2024 road item.

Footnotes

1. Board packet, meeting 752897, pp.18-30. ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Board packet, meeting 752897, pp.18-30. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Board packets: meeting 562416 p.26; 585935 p.170; 611485 p.81; 631152 p.102. ↩ ↩²

4. Board packet, meeting 594833, p.49. ↩ ↩²