FA/FB

Boulder Valley School District
Adopted: prior to 1969
Revised: March 10, 2009, March 11, 2025 

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FACILITIES GOALS AND PLANNING

The Board believes that a quality educational program is affected to a great extent by the environment within that it functions. The development of a quality educational program and school facilities that promote the implementation of the program go hand in hand.

Therefore, it is the goal of the Board to provide and maintain the number of facilities needed for the enrollment and the types of facilities supportive of the educational program. It is the Board's goal to plan facilities that will

1. Prioritize sustainability, integrate energy efficiency, and will be conducive to optimal teaching, learning, and working.
2. Be appropriately located to provide optimal use during the life of the facility.
3. Provide equitable instructional opportunities for all students.
4. Reflect the value placed on instruction by the School District community.
5. Ensure that the planning process clearly identifies facility requirements with enough lead time to plan, fund, build, or renovate facilities to meet a validated need.
6. Ensure that the planning process addresses all educational and educational support facility requirements.

The Board recognizes that facility planning is an ongoing process that requires resources to carry out short and long-range facility planning responsibilities. The Superintendent will establish a facilities planning process that includes:

1. Coordinating a process to identify, evaluate, validate, and document capital improvement needs, including the capital needs of district charter schools.
2. Maintaining and updating a comprehensive list of capital improvement needs.
3. Maintaining complete and current educational and technical specifications.
4. Providing facility needs data and background information for the development of short and long-range capital improvement programs.
5. Maintaining permanent facility project record documents and providing facility record information.
6. Conducting a thorough technical evaluation of proposed school sites.
7. Providing consultation, research, and information on facility matters.
8. Keeping abreast of educational program changes/trends and their facility impact.

LEGAL REFERENCES   

• C.R.S. § 22‐32‐109.1 (Board of Education – specific power & duties)
• C.R.S. 22-30.5-401et seq. (Charter School Capital Facilities Financing Act)
• C.R.S. 22-41-110 (payment of bonds)
• C.R.S. 22-41.5-101et seq. (weakening of debt limitations)
• C.R.S. 22-42-101 et seq.(bonded indebtedness)
• C.R.S. 22-45-103(1)(b) and (d) (bond redemption and special building and technology funds)
• C.R.S. 29-14-101et seq. (Bond Anticipation Note Act)