Visalia Unified School District holding meetings to ask for input on its facilities plan

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Visalia Unified School District is focusing connected its future.

That's wherefore the territory is rolling retired "Forward 2030: A assemblage driven blueprint for the future."

It involves a strategical program and facilities plan.

"We truly privation to acceptable our territory up for semipermanent success," Superintendent Kirk Shrum said.

Shrum says portion the strategical program looks astatine programs and pupil outcomes, the facilities program looks astatine resources and accommodations.

"Ten-plus years out, what caller operation mightiness we request to deliberation about? What bound adjustments mightiness we request to take," Shrum said.

Chief Operations Officer Erik Keher says earlier deciding connected the adjacent steps, they're going to the experts - the parents and community.

"We are trying to get retired mode successful beforehand of this process truthful that the assemblage tin engage, they tin springiness america feedback," Keher said.

The territory has created a website with inheritance information. There's besides a spot for the assemblage to inquire questions and person a response.

A bid of meetings volition beryllium held for radical to larn much and springiness their input.

At slightest 1 of the sessions volition beryllium recorded and uploaded online for those who are incapable to attend.

Keher says the input is important due to the fact that determination are plans that could instrumentality up to 10 years, but others that request to beryllium addressed successful the adjacent 1 to 3 years, similar schoolhouse colonisation size.

Superintendent Shrum says helium wants to determination guardant with assurance that these decisions are made collectively.

"When we contiguous thing to the Board of Education to marque short-term decisions, to marque semipermanent decisions, I privation to beryllium capable to basal successful beforehand of our committee and say, 'We're making these recommendations due to the fact that this is what we heard from our community.'" Keher said.

The assemblage is invited to be immoderate of the 7 upcoming meetings.

• 6 p.m., September 19 astatine Mt. Whitney High School
• 6 p.m., September 26 astatine Linell Camp
• 6 p.m., October 1 astatine Goshen Community
• 6 p.m., October 3 astatine Ivanhoe Elementary School
• 6 p.m., October 10 astatine La Joya Middle School
• 6 p.m., October 22 astatine Ridgeview Middle School
• 6 p.m., October 29 astatine Golden West High School