SB 238

Abstract

Department of Education; school division maintenance reserve tool. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of General Services, to develop or adopt and maintain a data collection tool to assist each school board to determine the relative age of each public school building in the local school division and the amount of maintenance reserve funds that are necessary to restore each such building. The bill requires each school board to provide to the Department of Education in a timely fashion the local data that is necessary to ensure that such tool remains relevant and useful for the determination of maintenance reserve needs. The bill requires the Department of Education to consider converting or using as a template the Department of General Services' Real Estate and Assets Management system for tracking buildings and infrastructure maintenance status to meet the above requirement to maintain such a tool. This bill is a recommendation of the Commission on School Construction and Modernization.

Department of Education; school division maintenance reserve tool. Requires the Department of Education, in consultationwith the Department of General Services, to develop or adopt andmaintain a data collection tool to assist each school board to determinethe relative age of each public school building in the local schooldivision and the amount of maintenance reserve funds that are necessaryto restore each such building. The bill requires each school boardto provide to the Department of Education in a timely fashion thelocal data that is necessary to ensure that such tool remains relevantand useful for the determination of maintenance reserve needs. Thebill requires the Department of Education to consider converting orusing as a template the Department of General Services' M-R FIX toolto meet the above requirement to maintain such a tool. This bill is a recommendation of the Commission on School Construction andModernization.