School facilities-infrastructure costs.

WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL SENATE

FILE

NO.
0017

ENROLLED ACT NO. 4, SENATE

FIFTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
2008 BUDGET SESSION

AN ACT relating to
school facilities; directing the school facilities commission to
ensure and enforce
efficient and
cost effective facility remedies
required to deliver quality educational services
;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 21
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116(d)(ii),
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117
(b)
(intro), (c) and
by creating a new subsection (
d
)
are
amended to read:

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116.

School district facility plans; filing with commission; commission review; administrative review.

(d)

Upon receipt, the commission shall review each submitted district facility plan. Commission review shall ensure the plan:

(ii)

Reduces building and facility inadequacies in the most efficient and cost effective manner
in order to deliver quality educational services
;

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117.

Annual evaluation of school buildings and facilities; remediation schedule; needs prioritization; combining facilities
;
implementation
of remedy
.

(b)

The commission shall for each building and facility remedy scheduled under subsection (a) of this section, determine the most cost effective method of remediation of building and facility inadequacies to
deliver quality educational services and
ensure compliance with the statewide adequacy standards. For any scheduled remedy for which major building and facility repair and replacement payments under W.S. 21
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109 are not sufficient to remedy the scheduled need, as determined by the commission, the commission shall determine if the remedy requires minor capital outlay or major capital outlay in accordance with the following:

(c)

In determining the most cost effective method in meeting capital construction needs
in order to deliver quality educational services
, the commission in consultation with the select committee on school facilities, may recommend consolidating educational facilities within, between or among school districts. The legislature shall approve any consolidation of educational facilities between two (2) or more school districts.

(d)

In determining building and facility remedies under subsection (b) of this section,
in developing

criteria and procedures for
site analysis under W.S. 21
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114(a)(xii) and
in developing
district facility plans under W.S. 21
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116
and otherwise administering this act
,
the commission shall adopt the remedy that is in the best financial and educational interests of the state, taking into consideration the most efficient and cost effective approach in order to deliver quality educational services and address building and facility need. Expenditures from the school capital construction account shall be for necessary and related costs to implement efficient and cost effective buildin
g and facility remedies required
to deliver quality educational services.
In making determinations under this paragraph, the commission shall take into consideration the effects of the proposed activity on the local community.
The commission shall implement this subsection in

carrying out building and facility remedies and shall, giving proper consideration to the prevention of unnecessary delays in preceding with a remedy, establish a process to work with other political subdivisions of the state in implementing this subsection.

Section 2.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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