Pittsburg Unified: budget workshop, facilities projects and hiring focus on recent agendas; no minutes yet
Three Pittsburg Unified School District meetings were scheduled in the past two weeks: a Facilities Sub-Committee meeting on Oct. 13, a Regular Board Meeting on Oct. 21, and an Ad-Hoc Diversity in Hiring and Retention Committee meeting on Oct. 22. For all three, the records supplied are agendas only. Minutes have not been published, so the available record does not show any votes, decisions, or outcomes from those meetings.
Budget workshop listed for Oct. 21 board meeting
The Regular Board Meeting agenda listed a workshop on the district's current fiscal condition. Items listed for discussion were a review of fiscal solvency, the budget reduction timeline, a salaries and benefits analysis, an analysis of student enrollment, and a review of the Multi-Year Projection (MYP) shortfall. The agenda does not include dollar figures for the shortfall or for any proposed reductions, and no outcome is recorded in the supplied material.
Facilities sub-committee agenda covered five project areas
The Oct. 13 Facilities Sub-Committee meeting was listed as an information and discussion session on school infrastructure projects and the Facilities Master Plan. Agenda items were:
- Hillview JHS Replacement Campus Project
- BESS Project and Inverters Upgrade Project
- Hillview JHS Soccer Field and Track & Field Projects
- PHS Stadium Parking Lot Replacement Project
- Highlands ES Portables Replacement and Los Medanos ES HVAC Units Replacement
The supplied record does not include cost estimates, schedules, or recommendations for any of these projects.
Hiring committee scheduled to select a 2026–27 focus
The Ad-Hoc Diversity in Hiring and Retention Committee was set to meet Oct. 22 to discuss its charge and guardrails, review data on district demographics, and use a dot vote to choose a focus for the 2026–27 period. The record does not state which focus was selected, or whether the vote was taken.
Coming up
The next scheduled meeting is a Regular Board Meeting on Oct. 28. Agenda items include:
- A public hearing on 2026-29 CSEA Sunshine Proposals, the district's collective bargaining proposals with the California School Employees Association
- Consideration of an updated Facilities Master Plan
- Acceptance of a $10,000 grant from Green School Yards of America
- A proposal from Alta Fence for perimeter fence installation at Pittsburg Adult Education Center
- Authorization for an E-Rate RFP to replace network switches
These are agenda items. The supplied record does not show that the Board has acted on any of them; the grant acceptance, fence proposal, and network switch authorization are listed for consideration, and the Facilities Master Plan update is listed for approval.
Residents can attend the Oct. 28 meeting; the agenda is the authoritative source for start time, location, and any changes.