Policy 3910-1

Facilities - Purpose

Planning Characterisitics

Reviewed and affirmed by the Board:  1/26/2010
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Characteristics of the master plan for facilities include the following:

1. To the extent possible, the plan should make the basic school program equally available to all students of the Lincoln Public School District.
2. The plan must be continuous, based on systematic and routine review of the entire plant considered as an entity, must attempt to make the most efficient total use of available facilities, and must consider utilization, maintenance and rehabilitation as part of the overall building decision.  Adequacy of individual buildings may be reviewed by a rating system designed to measure educational adequacy and cost effectiveness of renovation.
3. The plan should use cost savings available through early site acquisition, carefully developed financing programs and other contingencies including joint use for other community purposes.
4. In order to remain flexible, the plan should be described in terms of the contingencies which establish the timetable.  Demographic and other pertinent data must be systematically collected and interpreted and projections based on social indicators must be analyzed.
5. Implementation of the plan will be on a project-by-project basis by specific Lincoln Board of Education action on each project.  Staff will be responsible for preparing a project timetable describing elements of the plan to be periodically reviewed by the Board.  Although the staff timetable is expected to cover an extended period of time, no part of the plan is official except by specific Board action on its elements.
6. Projects in the plan should be timed to be accomplished using available facility financing mechanisms.