Fillmore Unified School District

District Communication
October 29, 2014

Board of Trustees

San Cayetano and Piru Elementary Schools Receive

State Funds for Facilities Improvements

Lucy Rangel, President

Virginia De La Piedra

John Garnica

State Allocation Board Approves Emergency

Repair Program Grants: Fillmore USD had two

Tony Prado

grants (submitted in 2008) approved for San

David Wilde

Cayetano and Piru Schools

San Cayetano School: an apportionment of

$1,764,393 was approved for facility
improvements

District Schools
Mountain Vista Elementary School

Piru Elementary School

Piru School: an apportionment of $1,327,349

was approved for facility improvements

Rio Vista Elementary School

San Cayetano Elementary School

Project Timeline: A future communication will

be provided to the San Cayetano and Piru

Fillmore Middle School

communities regarding the projects

Sierra High School

Fillmore High School

The Fillmore Unified School District received formal

to the Office of Public School Construction and any

confirmation from the State Allocation Board this

unused funds from each project, if any; will have

week that Emergency Repair Program (ERP) grants

to be returned to the State Allocation Board.

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were approved at its October 16 meeting. Our

Additionally, the unused funds from one project

district had two ERP grant applications (originally

cannot be used to cover a shortfall on a different

submitted to the state in 2008) specifically

project.

District Administration

designated for facilities improvements at San

Our Business Services and Maintenance,

Adrian E. Palazuelos, Ph.D. Superintendent

Cayetano and Piru Elementary Schools. The grant

Operations, and Transportation teams are working

Martha Hernandez, Assist. Superintendent

applications contained projects and improvements

together to effectively plan for the facility

Gary Hobelman, Assist. Superintendent

that will help in our continued work to ensure safe

improvements. The team will prepare a future

and orderly learning environments in our district

communication for the San Cayetano and Piru

facilities.

school communities with information on the

The first apportionment or grant is in the amount

coordination and scheduling of the work. It is our

of $1,327,349 for Piru and the second is in the

desire that the projects take place during the

amount of $1,764,393 for San Cayetano. The

summer break.

Fillmore Unified School District

apportionments are limited to the projects on the

We look forward to the completed improvements

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grant application with clear restrictions on the use

as a result of the ERP funds and will continue our

Fillmore, California 93015

of the resources. For example, the guidelines for

efforts as a district to advocate for additional

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the use of the apportionments require us to

resources from the state to improve all of our

complete expenditure reports for all submittals

facilities.