Re-roofing projects and pavement projects at Goleta Union School District schools are wrapping up ahead of the new school year, funded by Measure M, the $80 million bond approved by voters in 2020 to bring improvements to the schools and technology accessibility.
Since the bond was approved, the district and its Board of Education have been developing plans and setting priorities for the upgrades.
Projects that the district has settled on as its priorities include re-roofing and HVAC, new playgrounds and play surfaces, paving improvements, new equipment in each school’s STEAM labs, new classroom furniture and classroom modernization.
The bond measure also originally included solar panels and other renewable energy programs as projects to be funded, but Conrad Tedeschi, the Goleta Union School District’s assistant superintendent of fiscal services, said that solar tax credits, rebates and other incentive programs allow the district to fund those in other ways and instead spend that money on other school improvements.
This summer, the district is finishing up with re-roofing and installing new HVAC systems at Ellwood Elementary School and La Patera Elementary School, and new pavement projects are wrapping up at El Camino Elementary School and Mountain View Elementary School.
The new roofs include 3 inches of insulation, and the new HVAC systems are designed to bring in clean, filtered air with better air quality in the classrooms.
