The ASD has been making positive steps to transition to a more sustainable maintenance models for their facilities. Slowly, they're shifting more maintenance to the budget and less to dependence on bonding. Bonding for maintenance and over-building facilities was incentivized by the state policy of debt reimbursement where we were told if we approved bonds we would only have to pay 30-40% of the cost.

 Because of that perverse incentive, the ASD has accumulated over 7.7million square feet of facilities that takes around 3% of the of the $2.5B assets value each year ($75m/yr) to maintain those facilities through bonding.  

ASD should be smaller. Bench-marked against other more successful school systems ASD facilities could be 20%-30% smaller than they are today without impacting student outcomes. Unfortunately recovery from the the stupid debt reimbursement policy will take some time. In the meantime we need to maintain the facilities we have. 

Bottomline -incentives matter