Subcommittee cites curriculum access to recoup lost attendance funding; generators deemed cost‑prohibitive

The chair and staff reviewed facility decisions and district efforts to maintain instructional continuity when students cannot attend school in person. Members said earlier construction plans and cost‑value engineering decisions left the high school and other sites without backup generators because adding them would require large general‑fund commitments and risk deferring other projects.

"So that's why there's not backup generators there now," the chair said, noting earlier budget choices. He and staff described a program that provides curriculum access on days students cannot be in school; the chair said that program had recovered an estimated "at least a 5, if not higher percent" of the funding previously lost to non‑attendance, adding his recollection it may have been "about 8% of the money that we were not getting before." The subcommittee asked staff to consider how such continuity‑of‑instruction measures interact with policy on student representatives and with future facilities planning.