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Greetings!
***This email is created by Ken Ducote and Rose Drill-Peterson on behalf of the Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools and is not an official correspondence from the Orleans Parish School Board***
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SCHOOL FACILITIES MASTER PLAN REVISED AMENDMENTS |
Changes since July 2011 proposed amendments
- Includes all available or potentially available funding sources for completed and proposed projects -$1,843,971,682
- FEMA - $1,535,442,695
- New Market Tax Credits - $40,000,000
- State Historic Tax Credits - $43,566,987
- Restart - $18,900,000
- Insurance Proceeds (less FEMA deductions) - $60,000,000
- Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) - $137,330,000
- External Grants -$8,732,000
- Follows community input, peer review studies, and expert team recommendations
- Proposes to house projected enrollment between 42,486 and 46,962 students by 2016 within 88 school operations in 82 buildings
- Will necessitate some sharing of buildings or campuses by multiple operators
- Assignment of school operators to buildings is planned for announcement in December 2011
- Identifies potential estimated savings opportunities of $139.8 million in the estimates of new project costs
- Reducing scale of previously proposed projects - $54.6 million
- Pilot use of "fair market rates for labor costs" - $50.7 million
- Using design prototypes in multiple projects - $34.5 million
- Reprioritizes some projects
- Proposes 17 new schools in lieu of previously proposed 16
- Increases the number of "full renovations" from 7 to 12
- Creates a new category of 23 funded "refurbished schools" in lieu of unfunded full renovations
- No longer lists a prioritized group of Phase 3 projects still needed but not funded, presumably leaving the funding of those projects for future amendments
- Includes other $31.3 million for Phase 2 projects at unspecified schools for stabilization projects ($17.7 million), demolitions ($7.4 million) and mothballing ($6.2 million)
- Names 11 "bridge buildings" for continual use but with minimal repairs during the Master Plan implementation
- Proposes a "blue ribbon" Capital Investment Commission to generate recommendations on funding the unfunded renovations and in maintaining completed work
- To be convened by December 1, 2011, and to develop initial findings by February 1, 2012
- Commits to other policy changes
- Creates a Charter School Competitive Matching Funds Program of $1.3 million annually in Harrah's Rivergate Lease city funds
- Creates an Emergency Repair Fund of $1.3 million annually from the Harrah's revenues
- Commits to increasing DBE participation in all construction activities
- Pledges pilot strategy on some CDBG-funded projects relative to Davis-Bacon wage requirements
Next steps
- Thursday, October 13: Presentation and Public Meeting, 5:30 p.m., McDonogh 35, 1331 Kerlerec, New Orleans
- *TENTATIVE* Thursday, October 13: OPSB Public Hearing and Special Meeting, upon adjournment of preceding public meeting, McDonogh 35, 1331 Kerlerec, New Orleans
- Tuesday, October 18: BESE School Innovation and Turnaround Committee to consider for recommendation to full Board, Claiborne Building, 1201 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, time TBA
- Wednesday, October 19: BESE Meeting, Claiborne Building, 1201 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, time TBA
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