PERMANENT RULES
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The current rule calls for the tracking of at least 2% or greater of facility maintenance expenditures over the last fifteen years for a state assisted new facility built after 1993 in order to qualify to modernize that facility with state assistance. Although the intent is judged to be valuable, the implementation of the rule has been deemed to be problematic and does not necessarily achieve the desired results under the proposed rule, an asset preservation program (APP) is established which requires school boards to commit to maintaining facilities by developing a plan for asset preservation and maintenance, including an on-going condition assessment of all components and annual reporting. Designed to ensure the legislative intent, the revised rule retains financial penalties for eligibility of state assistance, but through a performance standard rather than through an accounting standard.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 392-347-023.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 28A.525.020 Duties of superintendent of public instruction.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 09-06-041 on February 25, 2009.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: (1) Definitions: For purposes of this chapter:
(a) An asset preservation program is a systematic
approach to ensure performance accountability; promote student
health and safety; by maintaining and operating building
systems to their design capacity; create maintain an
encouraging learning environment; and extend building life,
thus minimizing future capital needs.
(5)(d) Buildings accepted by the school board after
December 31, 2010 must implement an asset preservation APP
program within six months of upon facility acceptance.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: April 28, 2009.
Randy I. Dorn
Superintendent of
Public Instruction
OTS-2191.2
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 08-09-024, filed 4/8/08,
effective 5/9/08)
WAC 392-347-023
State assistance in post 1993
facilities.
((State assistance for modernization of school
facilities accepted by the school district board of directors
after January 1, 1994, shall be limited according to the
following conditions:
(1) A school facility shall be ineligible for state assistance if the total expenditures for maintenance of plant and equipment for that facility during the fifteen-year period immediately preceding the project application was below one-half of one percent of the total of the annually determined building replacement values during the same period;
(2) The allowable cost per square foot used to determine the amount of state assistance in any modernization project where the total expenditures for maintenance of plant and equipment for that facility during the fifteen-year period immediately preceding the project application was at least one-half but less than two percent of the total of the annually determined building replacement values during the same period shall be reduced as follows:
(a) The allowable cost per square foot shall be reduced by twenty-two and one-half percent where the above expenditure is at least one-half but less than one percent;
(b) The allowable cost per square foot shall be reduced by fifteen percent where the above expenditure is at least one but less than one and one-half percent;
(c) The allowable cost per square foot shall be reduced by seven and one-half percent where the above expenditure is at least one and one-half but less than two percent;
(3) No reduction in the allowable cost per square foot shall be applied to any modernization project where the total expenditures for maintenance of plant and equipment for that facility during the fifteen-year period immediately preceding the project application was two percent, or greater, of the total of the annually determined building replacement values during the same period;
(4) A district shall not be allowed to replace a school facility through new construction in lieu of modernization under WAC 392-347-042 where the total expenditures for maintenance of plant and equipment for that facility during the fifteen-year period immediately preceding the project application was below two percent of the total of the annually determined building replacement values during the same period.
(5) For the purpose of this section "maintenance of plant and equipment" shall be general fund expenditures charged to maintenance and operations activities 61-supervision and 64-maintenance and capital projects fund expenditures charged to type code 22-remodeling and 42-capital improvements as defined in the Accounting Manual for Public School Districts.)) As a condition precedent to receiving state assistance for modernization under WAC 392-347-015 or new-in-lieu of modernization under WAC 392-347-042, school districts that received state assistance for new and new-in-lieu school buildings and whose buildings were accepted as complete by school board of directors as of January 1, 1994, and later, shall adopt by board resolution and implement an asset preservation program (APP).
(1) Definitions: For purposes of this chapter:
(a) An asset preservation program is a systematic approach to ensure performance accountability; promote student health and safety by maintaining and operating building systems to their design capacity; maintain an encouraging learning environment; and extend building life, thus minimizing future capital needs.
(b) An asset preservation system is a system of tasks or projects that are active, reactive, or proactive in maintaining the day to day health, safety, and instructional quality of the school facility and tasks or projects that are proactive, predictive or preventative in maintaining the school facility over its thirty-year expected life cycle.
(c) A building condition evaluation is an evaluation of the condition of building components and systems using a standardized scoring matrix.
(d) A building condition standard is a numeric scoring table with a scale identifying the expected condition score for each year of the building's expected life cycle.
(2) The office of the superintendent of public instruction shall establish and adopt a uniform program of specifications, standards, and requirements for implementing and maintaining the asset preservation program.
(3) School districts with affected buildings under this chapter are required to:
(a) Adopt or implement an asset preservation system;
(b) Annually perform a building condition evaluation and report the condition of such building to the school district's board of directors no later than April 1st of each year;
(c) Thereafter in six year intervals during the thirty-year expected life span of the building, have a certified evaluator, as approved by the office of the superintendent of public instruction, perform a building condition evaluation and report the condition to the school district's board of directors and to the office of the superintendent of public instruction no later than April 1st.
(4) A school district building affected under this chapter and that does not meet the minimum building condition standard score of forty points at the end of the thirty years from the accepted date shall:
(a) Have its allowable cost per square foot used to determine the amount of state assistance in any modernization project reduced at a rate of two percent for each point below forty points, not to exceed a total twenty percent reduction; or
(b) Be ineligible for state assistance when the building condition score is less than thirty points.
(5) The following schedule shall apply to school districts with buildings affected under this chapter, and the requirements set forth shall replace the former requirements of this section:
(a) Buildings accepted by the school board in 1994 must begin an asset preservation program in 2009, and shall fully implement the program within no more than one and one-half years;
(b) Buildings accepted by the school board in 1995 must begin an asset preservation program in 2010, and shall fully implement the program within no more than one year;
(c) Buildings accepted by the school board in 1996 through 2010 must begin an asset preservation program in 2011, and shall fully implement the program within no more than six months;
(d) Buildings accepted by the school board after December 31, 2010, must implement an asset preservation program within six months of facility acceptance.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.525.020. 08-09-024, § 392-347-023, filed 4/8/08, effective 5/9/08; 06-16-031, amended and recodified as § 392-347-023, filed 7/25/06, effective 8/25/06; 01-09-012, § 180-33-023, filed 4/6/01, effective 5/7/01; 91-12-058, § 180-33-023, filed 6/5/91, effective 7/6/91.]