The plant facility levy is a voter-approved levy that generates revenue that is allowed to be used for capital projects, building maintenance, site acquisition, and capital purchases. West Ada School District has received plant levy authority from its voters since 1972. The levy was reauthorized in 1982, 1990, 1998, and 2007. The voter authority granted in 2007 expires after the 2016-2017 school year.

On March 14, 2017 voters will be asked whether or not to authorize a new plant facility levy for the next ten years. If approved, the levy would allow West Ada School District to levy up to $16 million to acquiring school sites, remodeling or improving existing buildings, and furnishing and equiping existing buildings.

Unlike a supplemental levy, which sets a fixed amount that a school district can levy, a plant levy sets an amount up to which a district can levy. The 2007 election provided West Ada School District the authority to levy up to $20 million per year for capital projects.

Over the last 10 years, the district has levied, on average, $15,096,480 in plant levy revenue. This does not count the 2010 - 2011 school year when the district only levied $2,394,214 to prevent an increase in the school district’s levy rate during the height of the recession.

Unlike other taxing districts, an increase in the market value does not increase the amount of revenue received by the district. Instead, the cost per $100,000 of taxable value decreas-es. For example, West Ada levied $20 million in plant revenue for the 2014-2015 school year, resulting in a levy rate of $142.50 per $100,000 of taxable property value. This school year West Ada also levied $20 million in plant levy revenue, but because the total taxable property value has increased by $2.8 billion, the resulting levy rate is now $118.80 per $100,000.

Parents and community members have consistenly given West Ada Schools high marks for how well the school district’s schools are maintained. However, survey results also indicate that maintaining schools is also a priority for parents. In the verbatim responses this desire for quality schools is reflected in comments from parents about specific areas of school that need to be repaired or improved. This data is used to help direct plant facility project planning.

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Plant Facility Expenditures

Over the last decade, West Ada has used plant facility revenue to repair roofs, carpet and paint schools, construct new school space, and make capital improvments. Some of the major projects over the last 10 years include the following:

• Construction of Renaissance High School Provided 800 additional high school seats, helping relieve overcrowding at the district’s large high schools• Construction of Willow Creek Elementary Provided relief for Paramount Elementary, which had student enrollment over 800 in a building constructed for 650 students • Construction of Pathways Middle School After 10 years, provides a classroom building for a school that had, since its inception in 2006, been operated in a collection of 10 portable buildings• Remodel of Meridian High School Expanded the school’s capacity by 300 seats, improved electrical and HVAC systems, created classrooms that follow the district’s standard size configuration (900 square feet), and updated systems to meet the educational needs of the 21st century

Maintenance projects typically consume the majority of plant levy revenue as budgeted in the 2016-2017 school year.

Plant Levy History Year Levy Rate/Amount

2016-17 1.18838262 $20,000,000 2015-16 1.316941 $20,000,000 2014-15 1.425011 $20,000,000 2013-14 1.597974 $19,236,806 2012-13 1.226563 $13,022,953 2011-12 0.927545 $9,608,565 2010-11 0.214829 $2,394,214 2009-10 1.061656 $14,000,000 2008-09 1.309623 $20,000,000 2007-08 0.725533 $11,000,000

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Plant Facility Budgeting

On an annual basis, West Ada solicits and receives school maintenance, construction, and capital improve-ment requests from the distict’s school administrators and from vaious departments including curriculum, technology, and maintenance. These requests are analyzed and prioritized in a series of categories based on the most pressing needs and the estimated costs. Following are the plant facility categories in a typical budget year:

• Paint Examples include applying external sealer and interior and exterior painting.• Blacktop Examples include fixing damaged sidewalks, repairing and replacing failing parking lots, replacing tennis courts, and fixing running tracks.• Floors and Ceilings These projects include replacing floor tiles and worn-out carpet, re-finishing gym floors, and fixing ceiling tiles.• Mechanical systems The district maintains a variety of cooling and heating systems depending on the age of the building. Projects include replacing furnaces, heat pumps, exhaust fans, and HVAC units.• Roofing School roofs are analyzed and replaced on a 20-25 year cycle. A new elementary school roof costs approximately $700,000.• Minor building improvements Examples of these projects include fixing and and re placing broken of worn out windows, sinks, toilets, wallpaper, gymnasium equipment, drinking fountains, door locks and hardware.• Electrical These projects generally update older electrical systems either to increase their capacity or to improve safety.• Plumbing These repairs include repairing sewer lines and water lines, replacing fixtures, replacing water heaters, and completing other plumbing repairs.• Irrigation/Playground Playgrounds and school fields often require fence repairs, equipment repairs or replacement, tree removal, and installation of gates to the grounds for public access.

Interior painting at Pepper Ridge Elementary

Replacement of track at Mountain View High School Christine Donnell Elementary Re-roof Project

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Plant Facility Budgeting

• District Projects District plant levy projects are usually either to acquire property to build future schools or large capital projects. For example, the initial work remodeling Meridian High was done using Plant Facility Revenue. • Technology Examples of technology requests include district network-wide equipment in addition to upgrades to school computer labs or school-level equipment needed for the district’s computer network.• Custodian Custodial requests include large-scale cleaning equipment including floor scrubbers, backpack vacuum clean ers, pressure washer and other devices needed to keep schools clean.• Grounds Grounds requests include mowers, irrigation equipment, vehicles, and equipment for fertilizing grounds.• Curriculum Curriculum purchases are typically for educational materials used in classrooms across the district.• Career Technical Education Spending from the plant levy for career technical programs is often for the remodel or development of classroom space to offer a career technical program. For example, the program requested funding to develop a diesel mechanic program at the Ada Professional Technical programs housed at Meridian High.• Miscellaneous Examples of uncategorized projects include replacement of portable buildings, installation of bike racks, enclosure of elementary libraries in existing buildings, purchase of white boards, installation of new lockers, or replacement of safety and lab equipment.

Like roofs on most homes, school building roofs need to be replaced every 20-15 years.

While important to protect the building’s interior, roof replacements are a significant capital projecte.

A high school’s roof can cost more than $1 million to replace. Spalding STEM Academy had its roof replaced in the summer of 2016.

Eagle High School Exterior Paint

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Capital Projects 2017-2027

West Ada School District maintains 4,418,769 square feet of building space in 56 facilities. Maintaining these facil-lities over the next ten years will require a similar investment of as has been made over the last ten years. Since 2007 the district has average just over $15 million in Plant Facility Revenue. Based on that experience, with the addition of 10 new schools by 2028, a Plant Facility Levy with authority up to $16 million per year should be adequate to maintain the communities $454,913,004 investmenent in the current schools. In addition to ongoing maintenance, the Plant Levy would allow West Ada to make improvements to existing facilities to bring them up to 21st Century standards of educational environment. Some of the following potential capital projects could be funded in by the Plant Facility Levy:

Site Acquisition for Future Schools

West Ada School District currently owns five elementary sites. To preventdevelopment costs for land, purchasing property in advance of development saves the district - and its taxpayers - on the cost per acre. To stay ahead of development, West Ada will need to purchase at lease one additional site north of Chinden and another site south of I-84. Because a square mile and a half of residential development at 3.5 homes per acre generates enough elementary students to fill an elementary school with a capacity of 650 students, additional sites will also need to be acquired in North Meridian. Fortunately, these sites, which are 8 to 10 acres in size may be donat-ed by the development community.

Secondary sites, however, are more difficult to acquire by donation. A typical middle school site is 28 - 30 acres; a high school site is approximately 55 acres. Over the next ten years West Ada will need to add three high school sites and three middle school sites to its inventory in order to meet the need for schools in the future.

Current Sites for Future Schools(see appendix)

Elementary SitesBirchstone Creek (Linden Park) - NW corner of Black-cat Rd. & Ustick Rd.Cedar Springs (Brookside) - N. Venable Lane (Venable & Ustick)Keego Springs (Pleasant View) - Blackcat Rd. & Chin-den Blvd.New Hope Elem Site - New Hope & StarSouthridge Sub (Blue Valley) - Overland Rd. & Linder Rd.

Secondary SitesChinden Middle Site - Chinden Rd. & Black Cat Rd.Hill Middle/High Sch. Site (was Union MS Site) - Amity Rd. & Eagle Rd.Star High School Site (Star) - Floating Feather Rd. & Pollard Rd.Grove High School Site - W. Amity Rd. & So.Ten Mile Rd.

Silver Sage Library Enclosure

Enclosing the open libraries at Silver Sage, Barbara Morgan, and Chief Joseph Elementary schools has created a improved learning environment for students.

Other schools built during that same time period with similar designs - Joplin, Christine Donnell, and Eagle Hills - would benefit from similar remodels.

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Capital Projects 2017-2027

Renaissance High School Classroom Additions

As Renaissance High has continued to grow to a capacity of 800 students, the school has outgrown the initial classrooms that were constucted in the former Jabil Manufacturing facility. Remaining undeveloped space in the facility is still available for classroom space that will provide adequate classrooms for a 800 students. This is the final phase of the Renaissance project.

Spalding Elementary and Pioneer Elementary Gymnasiums

Since becoming schools of choice over the last decade, both Spalding and Pioneer Elementary schools regularly operate with more than 700 students. Unlike the elementary schools built today, which have both a cafeteria and a gymnasium, at these two schools the gym and cafeteria is a single, shared facility. This space limitation makes scheduling all students for physical education difficult, an issue that could be solved by adding a gymnasium to each of these two schools.

Meridian High Auditorium

The Meridian High School remodel has created a learning environment that matches the learning environments of other West Ada high schools. The remodel and renovation project also increased the school’s capacity to 2400 students. The school’s auditorium, however, only seats 125 audience members. The art building at Meridian High School is as old and outdated as the academic building. To bring the auditorium to a size that could accomodate a single grade level would require an auditorium for 600. Space that exists and is not in use on the school’s campus would make this addition possible.

Eagle High and Rocky Mountian Artificial Turf

The turf at Eagle High was originally paid for by the school’s booster groups 10 years ago. Like other capital assets donated by parent groups, the ongoing maintenance becomes the responsibility of West Ada. A group of parents presented a compeling case to the Board of Trustess demonstrating that turf is a more efficient use of resources than maintaining grass fields because of the signicant increase in the number of students who can use the field, expanding its daily use from football only to band, physical education, and other sports. The process of replacing turf that has reached its expected usage began with the replacement of turf at Meridian High during the summer of 2016. The Eagle High turf will have to be replaced in the summer of 2017 to ensure a safe playing surface. Over the next 10 years, Rocky Mountain will require being replaced.

Meridian High School Articial Turf Replacement

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Capital Projects2017-2027

Star Elementary Cafeteria

Star Elementary’s cafeteria/gymnasium was built in 1959, when enrollment at the school was considerably lower than it is today. While past classrooms additions to Star has increased the number of students the school can accomodate, the gymnasium/kitchen has not been updated to serve the increase in students. Currently a separate building from the main classroom structure, conceptual plans, if built, would make the gymnasium/cafeteria a part of the main campus, expand the facility, and update the design and functionality of the kitchen.

Meridian Middle School Cafeteria

Meridian Middle School’s cafeteria is part of the school’s original building that existed prior to much of the school burning in the 1990s. While that damage was rebuilt, the original cafeteria remained and is both aging and inadequate in size. The building is part of the campus and free-standing, providing an opporutunity to remodel or replace the existing building.

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WEST ADA SCHOOL DISTRICTJANUARY 2016

Existing Schools Existing Schools

1 Barbara Morgan Stem Academy 41 River Valley Elem.2 Cecil D. Andrus Elem. 42 Rocky Mountain High3 Centennial High 43 Sawtooth Middle4 Central Academy 44 Seven Oaks Elem.5 Chaparral Elem. 45 Silver Sage Elem.6 Chief Joseph Elem. 46 Siena Elementary7 Christine Donnell School of the Arts 47 Eliza Hart Spalding Elem.8 Crossroads Middle 48 Star Elem.9 Desert Sage Elem. 49 Star Middle

10 Discovery Elem. 50 Summerwind Elem.11 Eagle Academy 51 Ustick Elem.12 Eagle Elem. 52 Victory Middle School13 Eagle High 53 Willow Creek Elem 14 Eagle Hills Elem.15 Eagle Middle16 Frontier Elem.17 Galileo Math & Science Leased School Facilities18 Gateway Elem. 54 Charter Schools-Medical/Technical19 Heritage Middle20 Hillsdale Elem.21 Hunter Elem. District Owned - Future Sites22 Joplin Elem. D1 Blue Valley Elem - Southridge Sub - Linder/Overland (11.42 acres)23 Lake Hazel Elem. D2 Brookside Elem - Cedar Springs Sub - Meridian/Ustick (11.37 acres)24 Lake Hazel Middle D3 Kuenzli Middle School Site - Black Cat/Chinden (28+ acres)25 Lewis & Clark Middle D4 Grove High School Site - Linder/Amity (66.519 acres)26 Lowell Scott Middle D5 Hill High/Middle School Site - Eagle/Amity (39.13 acres)27 Mary McPherson Elem. D6 Linden Park Elem - Birchstone Sub-Black Cat/Ustick (10.27 acres)28 Meridian Academy D7 Pleasant View Elem - Keego Springs-Black Cat/Chinden (4.9 acres)29 Meridian Elem. D8 Star High School Site-Pollard Lane (116.50 acres-with Star Middle)30 Meridian High D9 Roseland Sub - Star (7.31 acres)31 Meridian Middle D10 Central Drive Site - Future District Programs (18.94 acres)32 Mountain View High33 Paramount Elem.34 Pathways Middle35 Pepper Ridge Elem.36 Peregrine Elem.37 Pioneer School of the Arts38 Ponderosa Elem.39 Prospect Elem.40 Renaissance High

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Apendix:Compass Growth Projections 2016-2019

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Apendix:Compass Growth Projections 2016-2021

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Apendix:Compass Growth Projections 2016-2026

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