School Capital Improvement Planning Task Force from January 21, 2014 Meeting Metro Offices in Portland Members Present: Joe Rodriguez, Scott Rose, David Krumbein, Geoffrey Hunnicutt, David McKay, Edward Wolf, Matt Donahue, Jeana Woolley, Don Grotting, Craig Roberts, Cheri Rhinhart Members Absent: Carol Samuels Guests: Ruth Scott, Morgan Allen, Dennis Whitehouse, Ben Sawsburt (Metro), Clint Chiavarin (Metro) Matt Donahue presented the slide show developed by Carol Samuels on GO bonding. Ruth Scott: the language in SB 540 about evolving methods of education” came “the from the OEIB and came out of the movement towards and integrated P-20 primarily the possibility of putting pre-k programs into public school buildings. Community colleges did not want to be included in the task force. Dave Krumbein: evolving methods of education also means technology—connectivity, online classes, etc. Joe Rodriguez: the task report is due in October, but the funding goes through the biennium. Is there work that will need to continue after the report is done? The key is to make what the task force does as flexible as possible. Scott Rose: Equity is an important consideration. Ted Wolf: we should look at the governor’s ideas about capital. The TF can learn from what the governor’s office has already done. Ruth Scott: standards can help assure that facilities are high quality and prevent incentives from leading to unintended consequences. Scott Rose: standards can be used as a guide or a hammer. They need to be designed carefully so they serve as guides. Joe Rodriguez gave a demo of the School Atlas system. It is a GIS-based mapping and data system. Scott Rose: we need to make sure that the data for school districts are accurate “need” if the state is going to make funding decisions based on the data.
School Capital Improvement Planning Task Force from January 21, 2014 Meeting Metro Offices in Portland Members Present: Joe Rodriguez, Scott Rose, David Krumbein, Geoffrey Hunnicutt, David McKay, Edward Wolf, Matt Donahue, Jeana Woolley, Don Grotting, Craig Roberts, Cheri Rhinhart Members Absent: Carol Samuels Guests: Ruth Scott, Morgan Allen, Dennis Whitehouse, Ben Sawsburt (Metro), Clint Chiavarin (Metro) Matt Donahue presented the slide show developed by Carol Samuels on GO bonding. Ruth Scott: the language in SB 540 about “the evolving methods of education” came from the OEIB and came out of the movement towards and integrated P-20 the possibility of putting pre-k programs into public school buildings. Community colleges did not want to be included in the task force. Dave Krumbein: evolving methods of education also means technology—connectivity, online classes, etc. Joe Rodriguez: the task report is due in October, but the funding goes through the biennium. Is there work that will need to continue after the report is done? The key is to make what the task force does as flexible as possible. Scott Rose: Equity is an important consideration. Ted Wolf: we should look at the governor’s ideas about capital. The TF can learn from what the governor’s office has already done. Ruth Scott: standards can help assure that facilities are high quality and prevent incentives from leading to unintended consequences. Scott Rose: standards can be used as a guide or a hammer. They need to be designed carefully so they serve as guides. Joe Rodriguez gave a demo of the School Atlas system. It is a GIS-based mapping and data system. Scott Rose: we need to make sure that the “need” data for school districts are accurate if the state is going to make funding decisions based on the data. primarily