Salmon Bay Playground Committee

FOSB PresentationJune 10, 2010

• Lance Adams• Robin Lofstrom• Karen Fossum• Jay Dotson• Kate Banta-Green• Alexandra Immel• Lisa Crozier

• Form steering committee: staff, parents, students, and neighbors.• Create reasonable overall project budget/goals.

Design steps• Competitively select a design consultant to develop schematic and construction

documents. • Consultant will need to provide a certificate of insurance.• Designer should develop two to three concepts.• District will review concepts and let us know if there are any unacceptable elements.• Steering committee presents concepts, with budget estimates to community.• Steering committee will select preferred option, based on school and community

feedback. • District will review preferred option.• District must sign-off on this concept/schematic plan prior to designer proceeding

with construction documents.• District will review construction documents at 50% and 95% completion.• District will provide bid documents, the format and process of which is based on the

estimated size of the project.

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Equipment• Once funding is in hand for purchasing the playground equipment (e.g., under

contract for grants), you may proceed with issuing a Request for Proposal for play equipment. Format and process for bidding is based on the estimated size of the project as well as the source of funding.

• Meanwhile, you can begin to survey your school and neighborhood communities to begin to determine what types of equipment activities would complement existing playground resources at your school and in your community.

Construction• Prior to issuing an invitation to submit bids, all funding must be in hand based

on architect’s estimated cost of the project (e.g., grant contracts in place, pledges committed.)

• Bid documents will outline insurance and bonding requirements.• Bid documents will also include safety and security requirements, such as a

temporary construction fence and when contractors may work on the playground.

Match

• Physical improvements: 1:1

• Non-physical projects (design): ½: 1

for every $100 we raise, they will match it at $200

• Volunteer labor: valued at $20/hr

• Professional services: max. $75/hr.

Applications are awarded based on how well you meet 100 points:

• 30 pts – proposed idea• 30 pts – neighborhood involvement/community building• 10 pts – outcome (how will you measure success)• 30 pts – project resources and readiness

Purpose• create stronger, more connected neighborhoods and communities. • build a more vibrant community• make it clear: why do we want to do this project?• also make it clear: how will it benefit the public?

*NMF (Neighborhood Matching Fund)

Committee meeting hours $20/hr

Donation of space for community meetings at market rates

Community meetings $20/hr per participant

Grantwriting time $75/hour

Engineering time $75/hour

Architectural design time $75/hour

Printing costs

and more…

*NMF (Neighborhood Matching Fund)

Purpose• provide a public benefit• be free and open to all members of the public• emphasize self-help, with project ideas initiated, planned and

implemented by the neighbors and community members who will themselves be impacted by the project

• Demonstrate the direct involvement in program design, including population that will benefit from the work

• Show the strength & experience of the board, leadership, and project staff

• Leverage partnerships with public or other private funders (Autism Speaks perhaps)

• Typical total grant sizes are $50K-$200K.

• Majority of grants cover 15%-25% of project costs.

• Apply: ongoing

Gates Pacific Northwest

Community Grants

• Focus on innovative proposals

• Build the field of services for individuals with autism

• Expand the capacity to effectively serve this growing community

• Recreation and athletic programs for individuals with autism spectrum disorders

• $5,000 - $25,000 range

• Apply: mid-June, 2011

• Grants awarded: January, 2012

Autism Speaks

June 2010 Autism Speaks Family Service Community Grant

Make initial inquiry; wait to be invited to apply; apply late-June

July 2010 NMF Small & Simple (a.k.a. design grant)

Apply

Late Winter 2010

Salmon Bay Present design; refine

Begin fundraising

January 2011 Autism Speaks Awards announced

February 2011

NMF Large Project Fund Apply

July 2011 NMF Large Project Fund Awards announced

August 2011 Gates PNW Community Funding

Apply for additional funding needed to complete project

Late fall 2011 Construction begins?

High

Medium

Low

13.50%

86.50%

Reimagine

Replace

# of respondents: 78

54.50%

45.50% Yes

No

# of respondents: 78

9.00%

10.30%

17.90%

51.30%

9.00%

2.60% 0

None

$10

$50

$100

$500

$1,000

# of respondents: 78

Salmon Bay School• 17 kids

• Only inclusion program for middle school kids in the district

• Parents choose Salmon Bay because of our culture of supporting all learners

Seattle metropolitan area• One of three major metropolitan

areas with highest population of kids along the autism continuum

• 1,000 kids come through Children’s Hospital per year

UW Autism Treatment Center• 600 kids come through this

program each year• The center was created two years

ago by a $5 million grant from Microsoft and a matching grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Microsoft was the first company in the U.S. to cover the costs associated with ABA

United States• In 2007, a CDC study resulted in

an estimate of approximately 1 child in every 150 in the US will have an ASD.

• A child is diagnosed with autism every 20 minutes in the US.

Possible partnerships to develop for the design phase include:

• Seattle Special Education PTSA (have expressed an interest)

• Education & Support Group for Seattle Asperger’s

• Special Education Advisory & Advocacy Council for Seattle

Schools

• Autism Society of Washington, King County