CUSD board will ponder master plan for facilities

CHICO — Lots of need, and not nearly enough money to pay for it. That is the issue facing the Chico Unified School District Board of Trustees when they meet in open session Wednesday. Julie Kistle, the district’s director of facilities and construction, will address the board Wednesday regarding the Facility Master Plan overview. Among the topics she will discuss includes the fact that not enough money from current bond funding — by way of Measure K, passed in November 2016 — will remain following a renovation of McManus Elementary School, the next prioritized school to receive renovations. Kistle told…