District overview
Los Gatos Union School District
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
How is Los Gatos Union funded, and what shapes its budget?
Los Gatos sits in an area with high property values, and public reporting describes LGUSD as a "basic aid" district -- one where local property taxes collected within district boundaries exceed what California's funding formula (the Local Control Funding Formula, or LCFF) would otherwise provide, so the district keeps the local revenue instead of primarily depending on a state per-pupil formula. The collected board minutes do not themselves restate this designation or reproduce the underlying budget numbers, but they consistently show a district managing multiple simultaneous funding streams: a General Fund reviewed twice a year in First and Second Interim budget reports, a locally approved parcel tax overseen by a citizen Financial Advisory/Parcel Tax Oversight Committee (FAPTOC), and a large voter-approved facilities bond (Measure CC) managed and audited separately from day-to-day operations.
Property taxes, not just a state formula, drive the budget
Public reporting describes LGUSD as a basic-aid district, where local property tax revenue exceeds the state LCFF entitlement. This means the district's budget health tracks local property values more than most California districts, whose revenue is set mainly by a per-pupil state formula.
The board reviews the budget twice a year, in public
Chief Business Official Teresa Fiscus presented a First Interim Budget Report (December 17, 2025) and a Second Interim Budget Report (March 5, 2026) to the board, each approved by unanimous vote, alongside a separate 2024-25 District Financial Audit (January 8, 2026).
A citizen committee oversees a separate parcel tax
The Financial Advisory/Parcel Tax Oversight Committee (FAPTOC) reported its 2024-25 annual report to the board on November 13, 2025, reflecting a locally approved parcel tax that is tracked and audited apart from the district's general operating budget.
A $163 million facilities bond is funding construction, tracked separately from operations
Voters approved Measure CC in November 2024 (per public reporting); the collected minutes show its own audit (January 8, 2026), its own program-implementation plan (April 2, 2026), and its own project list and budget allocations (April 21, 2026), each handled as a distinct funding stream from the general operating budget.
None of this means LGUSD's finances are unusually opaque or under-scrutinized -- if anything, the district's practice of separate, publicly reported audits for its general fund, its parcel tax, and its facilities bond is more disclosure than many districts provide. The gap is in this page's own sourcing: the collected minutes describe that these reviews happened and were approved, but do not reproduce the dollar figures discussed at each of them.
Where the district stands
Every collected board meeting document lists each trustee's name with a parenthetical term-expiration year; three of five trustees (Crow, Monk, Noymer) show 2026.
From the board's first discussion of a search timeline to its vote appointing Dan Deguara.
Regular and special board meetings from Aug. 28, 2025 through May 14, 2026, the most recent minutes LGUSD had posted as of this collection.
Not established by the collected board minutes; drawn from public enrollment reporting rather than an official district source found among the collected records.
The bond vote itself predates this page's 12-month collection window; the district's own minutes discuss its ongoing implementation but the collected records do not restate the bond's authorized amount.
Major projects
Measure CC facilities construction program
Project list and budget allocations approved; entering construction planningA voter-approved general obligation bond (Measure CC) is funding construction at multiple LGUSD schools. Over the collected year, the board moved from approving architectural proposals to approving a concrete project list and budget allocations, and hired a dedicated Bond Construction Manager to oversee delivery.
- Board approves architectural proposals for Fisher Middle and Van Meter Elementary priority projects
- Board approves architectural and construction-management-services contracts for the same projects
- Board approves the Measure CC bond's 2024-25 financial and performance audit
- Board approves hiring a Bond Construction Manager and reviews a Measure CC Program Implementation Plan
- Board approves the Measure CC project list and budget allocations
Funding
Measure CC, a general obligation bond approved by Los Gatos voters in November 2024 (reported publicly as $163 million; the bond vote itself predates this page's collected 12-month minutes).
The collected minutes document the bond's ongoing audit, implementation plan, and project-list approval, but do not restate its authorized dollar amount.
Superintendent search and transition
Search completed; new superintendent's contract approved, incomingThe board ran a multi-month search for its next superintendent -- hiring a search firm, setting selection criteria informed by a community survey, and interviewing finalists in closed session -- before appointing Dan Deguara and approving his employment agreement.
- Board begins discussing a superintendent-search timeline and candidate search firms
- Board hears finalist search-firm presentations and tentatively selects Human Capital Enterprises
- Board approves final next-superintendent criteria after reviewing community survey results
- Board votes in closed session to appoint Dan Deguara as next superintendent
- Board unanimously approves Deguara's employment agreement
Funding
District general fund (search-firm contract with Human Capital Enterprises); not bond- or grant-funded.
This page is built from Los Gatos Union School District's own posted board meeting minutes (Edlio-hosted PDFs linked from lgusd.org), covering trustee meetings from August 28, 2025 through May 14, 2026 -- the most recent minutes the district had posted as of this collection. Board agenda attachments hosted on the district's Simbli portal were not collected, because Simbli's terms of service prohibit automated access; only the district's own posted minutes and Edlio-hosted documents were used. A few contextual figures noted above (enrollment, the Measure CC bond's authorized amount, and background on the outgoing superintendent) are drawn from public reporting rather than the collected minutes and are marked as such.
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