On July 9th
Board Member Paulette Burdick submitted the following requests regarding
FY2008-2012 Five Year Plan -Construction
Request #1A. Please
provide the OOD numbers at Manatee Elem.
Response #1A: The out-of-district
enrollment at Manatee Elementary for the last three school years is as
follows:
SY2006-07
31
SY2005-06
38
SY2004-05
51
The Principal indicates that Manatee has three autistic
units. The out-of-district students are comprised mostly of staff reassignments,
in accordance with the CTA contract, and ESE assignments. These OOD
students provide the school with some diversity, which they do not want to
lose.
Request #1B: Please provide a map marking any
roadways or canals bisecting the PUD's in the attendance
area.
Response #1B: See the attachment labeled “Manatee
Elementary 07”.
Please note Policy 5.01 states: "The integrity of
subdivisions should be maintained. (NOTE: developments such as planned unit
developments (PUDs) may consist of multiple distinct
subdivisions.)"
Request #2: Please
provide the projects and budgets for the 5M for Boca H.S. referendum
list.
Response #2: See
the attachment labeled “Draft BRHS Referendum Costs”. Note that this is a
draft because it will take more time to separate out the cost for the baseball
field enhancements (Item 11) from the total cost of the baseball fields, and we
do not have bids on some items such as the swimming pool (Item 4) and the
playground shade covers (Item 13). Some people may take the position that
the District would have had to provide the additional classrooms (Item 1) for
class size reduction, therefore the cost for that work should not be counted
against the requested projects.
Request #3: In May
06 the board approved a GMP for
Response #3: In
addition to excluding the build-out of the high school space, the budget that was
approved by the Board excluded the completion of locker rooms. The
District was planning on completing the entire secondary school at one time, but
during that time construction inflation was exceeding 20% per year and we did
not have enough in the budget to build the high school and the locker
rooms. The draft FY 2008-2012 5-Year Plan proposes postponing the high
school build-out for at least 5 years, therefore we are planning to complete the
locker rooms for the middle and high school students that will be participating
in sports over the next several years. The cost to finish the locker rooms
is $700k. The middle school classrooms are nearing completion and there
will be approximately $300k remaining in the project’s construction
contingency. We will need an additional $400k to finish the locker
rooms.
Request #4: Please
attach the ISSOC policy.
Response #4: See
attachment labeled “ISSOC Policy”.
Request #5: Please
correct the (2) typo's for Gove Elem. A.) In 1989, 17 existing wooden portables
were at Gove since that time 9 other wooden portables were relocated from other
campuses. A 20 year employee at the school remembers the portables being at the
school when she was first employed. The capacity at the school was/is 658
and 300 seats provided by new concretables. B.)It appears that Gove is at 133%
over capacity.
Response #5: Staff
has rechecked the FISH data and confirms that the capacity of the school is
924. The school’s pre-CSR FISH was 936 and the CSR FISH was 780 prior to
the addition of the 8 modulars which brought the FISH up to 924. As per
the Technical Advisory Group, which oversees school concurrency, modulars can be
counted towards a school’s permanent capacity. The wooden portables are
not counted towards the school’s permanent FISH capacity of 924. With a
projected enrollment of 893 students the school’s utilization is projected to be
97% in SY 2007/2008 and only go up to 101% in SY 2011/2012.
Staff noted that there
was an error on the Board backup labeled “Summary of Changes”. The Gove
Elementary Modernization is not proposed to be postponed, however, Glade View
Elementary is proposed to be postponed one year. These schools are close
to each other and staff’s plan is modernize Gove Elementary one year, and move
Glade View into the old Gove for one year while we modernize Glade View.
This will save the District a considerable amount of money by avoiding the cost
of demucking for and installing relocatable classrooms to temporarily house the
students of at least one of the two schools.
Request #6: I
appreciate the point system for ranking priority projects. Please run a new
report with "reducing overcrowding" and assign it 12 points and "aging facility"
with 8 point and referendum 10 points.
Response #6: The
points were determined by a cross-departmental group based on what they
determined to be the ranking of the criteria. These results were presented to and accepted by
the Construction Oversight & Review Committee (CORC) and the Independent
Sales Surtax Oversight Committee (ISSOC). Before revising the criteria or
the points and running different scenarios staff recommends that the rest of the
Board have the benefit of hearing the presentation that was made to the
oversight committees as well as the discussions that came out of those
meetings. Once
that is done the Board may want to discuss the merits of the process and
recommend adjustments.
Request #7:
Typo-Wynnebrook has been ranked above Gladeview and Washington. Please
place it in the list along with
Response #7: Staff
rechecked the 2003 rankings of the schools for modernization and Wynnebrook
Elementary was ranked 5th which after Glade View (ranked
4th), but before Washington Elementary (6th).
Washington Elementary will be replaced with Wynnebrook on the next draft of the
Plan. The issues with
Joseph M.
Moore
Chief Operating
Officer
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