Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. The application must verify that the
school district has submitted a five-year facilities plan. The facilities plan
must include:
(1) enrollment projections,
which are updated at the beginning of each fiscal year and reflect the final
funded membership for the prior school year;
(2) projections for facilities needed to
maintain a full-day kindergarten program;
(3) the school district's mission statement,
facility goals and objectives, and the steps taken by the school district to
address the priority of needs. The goals and objectives should address how the
master plan supports the educational programs and needs of the
district;
(4) a prioritization of
the district's capital needs, including maintenance-related capital
renewal;
(5) description of
community involvement in the development of the master plan;
(6) if the application or master plan
establish ranked priorities for public school capital outlay projects within
the district that do not conform with the condition index rankings of public
school buildings within the school district, the school district must provide a
detailed explanation as to the rationale for the difference;
(7) a map of the school district addressing,
at a minimum, the following factors: location of all current sites, land owned
by the school district, location of any planned expansion (indicating whether
the site is owned by the school district), school district growth areas and
other school district facilities; and
(8) addressing of the facilities needs of
charter schools located within the school district.
B. The application must assure that the
school district is willing and able to pay any portion of the public school
capital outlay project that is not funded with grant assistance from the fund
and must provide information on the anticipated source of the local share, the
timelines for ensuring the local share and any known contingencies in ensuring
the local share.
C. The application
must address the needs of any charter school located in the school district or
provide documentation that the facilities of the charter school has a smaller
deviation from the statewide adequacy standards than other district facilities
included in the application.
D. The
application must include a preventive maintenance program meeting the
requirements of
6.27.3.11
NMAC.
E. The application must
address how the school district preventive maintenance program complies with
the requirements of
6.27.3.11
NMAC.
F. If the proposed project
exceeds the statewide adequacy standards, the application must provide a
detailed explanation of the variance and a cost analysis of the cost of meeting
the statewide adequacy standards and the excess costs associated with exceeding
the statewide adequacy standards.
G. If the application is for a charter school
located in privately owned facilities, the district must include documentation
sufficient to ensure that the provisions of Article IX, Section 14 of the
Constitution of New Mexico (the "anti-donation clause") are not violated and
that there were no violations of any conflict of interest laws.
H. Special provision: building systems
initiative.
(1) A school district desiring a
grant award for building system repair, renovation or replacement shall submit
an application on a form approved by the council. The application shall include
an assessment of the building system that the repair, renovation or replacement
of which would extend the useful life of the building itself.
(2) The authority shall verify the
assessment. The council shall prioritize applications for assistance pursuant
to the building systems initiative using a special condition ranking
index.
(3) The council shall
approve applications on the established priority basis to the extent of
available funds. No project shall be approved unless the council determines
that the school district is willing and able to pay the portion of the total
project cost not funded with grant assistance from the fund. The state share of
the cost of an approved project is calculated pursuant to the methodology in
Paragraph (5) of Subsection B of Section
22-24-5
NMSA 1978.
(4) Building system
repair, renovation or replacement funded under this program shall be
expeditiously completed. Any grants made pursuant to this subsection shall be
expended by the school district within three years of the grant
allocation.
