In order to properly conduct the annual Five Year Survey, the district must utilize an up-to-date, board approved, facility list. This list determines the appropriate classroom, administrative and ancillary spaces needed for specific grade levels. I am requesting approval of the attached facilities lists. The purpose of an educational plant survey is to aid in formulating plans for housing the educational activities of students and staff of the school district for the next several years. The development of this plan is based on a careful study of all available data regarding the current status of educational and ancillary facilities in relation to Capital Outlay Full-Time Equivalency (COFTE) student membership and the projected changes in COFTE student membership. The intent of a regular, formal educational plant survey is to encourage the thoughtful, orderly development of a program for providing educational and ancillary plants to adequately house the educational activities of the district.
A formal educational plant survey is required, by law, to be conducted every five years. It is sometimes necessary to make changes in the survey recommendation between the time of the formal district-wide surveys. In any case, local school administrators are responsible for a regular auditing of survey report recommendations and for the initiation of the request for any necessary changes.