Salgado-Whitman calls for a PVUSD facility audit before the November bond

This morning my campaign filed a public-records request with Paradise Valley Unified for the 2024-25 classroom-utilization data — building by building, room by room, period by period. The request also asks for the November bond's project list, broken out by campus, with the dollar figure attached to each line.

Here's why. The current board is preparing to put a $385 million bond question on the November ballot. The case being made for that bond is overcrowding. But the district has not, in any public meeting I can find, shown parents the room-by-room utilization for the campuses that bond is meant to fix. We are being asked to vote on the answer before we have seen the question.

I am not against funding our schools. My three kids are in PVUSD classrooms today. What I am against is asking parents to authorize $385 million before we audit the buildings we already own.

There are six campuses up the Tatum corridor at or above design capacity, and six south of Bell Road with empty classrooms. Same district. Same tax base. Same buses. Before we ask voters for one more dollar, the board owes parents an honest accounting of which rooms are full and which lines could be redrawn.

I am asking the sitting board to publish the audit, hold a public work session walking it line by line, and let the public comment on whether each bond line still belongs.