HB252:

School division maintenance reserve tool; Department of Education to develop or adopt and maintain.

Bill Summary:

Department of Education; school division maintenance
reserve tool. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation
with the Department of General Services, to develop or adopt and
maintain a data collection tool to assist each school board to determine
the relative age of each public school building in the local school
division and the amount of maintenance reserve funds that are necessary
to restore each such building. The bill requires each school board
to provide to the Department of Education in a timely fashion the
local data that is necessary to ensure that such tool remains relevant
and useful for the determination of maintenance reserve needs. The
bill requires the Department of Education to consider converting
or using as a template the Department of General Services' M-R FIX
tool to meet the above requirement to maintain such a tool. This
bill is a recommendation of the Commission on School Construction
and Modernization.