The Board is exploring options to fund its draft master facilities plan, with its full price tag of $218 million for all five sequences. Options include issuing non-referendum debt that would bypass voters leaving us without recourse to petition to place the question on the ballot.
• $117 million would be spent on demolishing and rebuilding the structurally-sound south end of the building, largely for PE/athletics. A renovation-focused plan has not been presented. Do the proposed expenditures align with our community’s values? Is this an equitable plan?
• 16% of the plan’s partial cost estimates are for academics. No STEM lab is included in the plan. Many of the important education related improvements take place in later stages of the draft plan. How would this plan improve academic outcomes for all students?
• Some line item expenditures for Sequences 2 & 3 are vague and lack transparency. Needs have not been clearly defined or prioritized. Shared/Common spaces are not necessarily related to student needs. See chart below: academic/educational improvements have lower priority.
• Sign the ONLINE PETITION - www.tinyurl.com/oprfpetition - to assert your right to vote on funding for this major capital works project. E-mail your concerns regarding the plan and its funding to the Board, BoE@oprfhs.org.
• The impact on property taxes and the date of the next D200 property tax referendum are uncertain.
• The cash reserve is already “spoken for”. It’s earmarked to offset D200’s deficit spending for the next five years, according to its Five Year Financial Projections report, released in October 2017.
• This project may become the fourth most expensive high school project in America, according
to Public School Review. (Link to article)
In the wake of “America to Me”, how is this plan an appropriate legacy for OPRFHS?
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| Proposed Order of Work - Arrows point to components that depend on completion of earlier work. Components below the dotted line are flexible and can be done at any point. |
Links to Imagine & LTFP files on oprfhs.org with a brief summary of their contents
10/25/18, $218 MILLION ESTIMATE for ALL FIVE Sequences, shows inter-dependencies between components as shown in the above chart, prioritizes athletic spending over academic (multiple pages)
https://intranet.oprfhs.org/board-of-education/board_meetings/Regular_Meetings/Packets/2018-19%20Regular/20181025%20Reg/Discussion/20181025%20BRD%20FINAL%20Funding%20for%20Projects%20Final.pdf
9/4/2018; Imagine Work Group, Facilities NEEDS ASSESSMENT Overview - 50+ pages
https://intranet.oprfhs.org/board-of-education/board_meetings/Special_Meetings/Packets/2018-19/20180911%20Special/Imagine%20Facilities%20Needs%20Assessment%20Overview%20-%20Draft%2009-04-18.pdf -
Sept. 2018, Imagine Master Plan SEQUENCE OVERVIEW - 2 pages, recaps the 5 sequences
https://intranet.oprfhs.org/board-of-education/board_meetings/Special_Meetings/Packets/2018-19/20180911%20Special/Imagine%20Master%20Plan%20Sequence%20Overview.pdf
9/4/2018, Imagine Plan Cost Estimates for Sequences 1, 2 & 3 (marked up version) - 3 pages (on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/D200PragmaticSolutions/files/ )
9/4/2018, Imagine Plan Concept COST ESTIMATES (original version of link above, 4 pages) https://intranet.oprfhs.org/board-of-education/board_meetings/Special_Meetings/Packets/2018-19/20180911%20Special/Concept%20Cost%20Estimate%20-%20CORRECTED%20-Seq%201-3%20Draft%20Master%20Plan%20-%2009-0.pdf
10/16/2018 - Addressing FUNDING for Projects (for Imagine Capital projects) by using
cash reserves, non-referendum bonds, Life Safety & Debt Certificates - 10 pages https://intranet.oprfhs.org/board-of-education/board_meetings/Committee%20of%20the%20Whole/2018-19%20COW%20Mtgs/20181016%20COW%20Mtg/Packet/Instruction/20181016%20COW%20Funding%20for%20Projects.pdf
