PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS 3x3 Committee
Meeting November 28, 2006
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• Outline
• Progress Report
• New vs Renovation Analysis (Format/Process)
• Goals
• QA.

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Preliminary schedule New vs renovation analysis
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Preliminary schedule New vs renovation analysis
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Preliminary schedule New vs renovation analysis
MDOE New Construction vs. Renovation
Format Part I Educational Adequacy Part
II History of Building Part III Site
Analysis Part IV Expandability Part V
Facility Analysis Part VI Comparative Cost
Analysis Part VII Summary
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Cefpi Appraisal New vs renovation analysis
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Cefpi Appraisal New vs renovation analysis
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Concept design john bapst hs example New vs
renovation analysis
Concept plan
existing plan
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goals New vs renovation analysis

• The primary assumptions are
• Fiscal Capacity
• Enrollment Trends
• Community Needs
• Educational Mandates
• Economic Diversity
• Other assumptions include
• Maintaining the recommendations of the 1997 EFTF
  Plan
• Reduce the current number of facilities
• Consolidate students wherever possible
• Limit redistricting
• Maintain neighborhood integrity
• Include all facilities
• Timeline
• Limit school size
• Provide adequate program sites

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goals New vs renovation analysis

• Goals
• Reduce costs
• Respond to current and  future enrollment trends
  and possibilities
• Improve the retention rate of students who live
  in the City
• Provide schools that meet community needs
• Align facilities with educational plan
• Consider economic diversity and equity in
  building and renovating schools.
• Limit the impact redistricting of students  
• Maintain neighborhood integrity
• Minimize disruption of successful learning
  communities (new)

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goals New vs renovation analysis

• Nick Mavodones
• Align facilities with educational plan
• Consider economic diversity and equity in
  building and renovating schools
• Respond to current and future enrollment trends
  and possibilities
• Provide schools that meet community needs
• James Cloutier
• Align facilities with educational plan
• Respond to current and future enrollment trends
  and possibilities
• Provide schools that meet community needs
• Consider economic diversity and equity in
  building and renovating schools
• Susan Hopkins
• Align facilities with educational plan
• Provide schools that meet community needs
• Consider economic diversity and equity in
  building and renovating schools
• Maintain neighborhood integrity
• Ellen Alcorn
• Align facilities with educational plan
• Consider economic diversity and equity in
  building and renovating schools
• Provide schools that meet community needs

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goals New vs renovation analysis

• Goals
• 1 - Align facilities with educational plan
  (1,1,1,1,1)
• 2 - Consider economic diversity and equity in
  building and renovating schools. (2,4,3,2,2)
• 3 - Provide schools that meet community needs
  (4,3,2,3,1)
• 4 - Respond to current and  future enrollment
  trends and possibilities (3,2,4,4,4)
• 5 - Limit the impact redistricting of students
  (2)  
• 6 (tie) - Reduce costs (3)
• 6 (tie) - Minimize disruption of successful
  learning communities (new) (3)
• 7 - Maintain neighborhood integrity (4)

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goals New vs renovation analysis

• The 3x3 charge from the City Council is to
• Review the Elementary Facilities Task Force
  report dated November 2002 and the subsequent
  EFTF2 report issued March 2006
• Review and analyze existing data regarding
  enrollment trends, facilities conditions, fiscal
  capacity and educational mandates
• Gather any additional data it deems necessary
• Recommend which elementary school facilities
  should be considered anchor schools to be
  maintained into the foreseeable future, including
  any findings necessary to allow the City to make
  necessary improvements or modifications to such
  schools pending more comprehensive renovation or
  reconstruction

• Recommend an updated plan for phasing the
  consolidation and renovation of elementary school
  facilities, including timeline and funding
  sources
• Work with and advise any architects or
  consultants retained to evaluate the feasibility
  of alternatives related to the Nathan Clifford
  School
• Hold public meetings to inform and solicit
  feedback from parents and the general public
• Submit recommendations to the School Committee
  and City Council by January 15, 2007