RSP consultant Rob Schwartz told the Iowa City board the boundary study will use local and proprietary datasets to model enrollment, examine facilities/programming/staffing trade-offs and deliver recommendations following committee meetings and three public-input sessions in the coming weeks.

The board approved contracts for a demographer and a boundary-analysis/community-engagement firm and approved updated SBRC exhibits; staff emphasized a compressed timeline for community workshops, three public input nights, and a planned SBRC appearance in early October.