Minutes: March 3, 2000
Facilitators and Attendance
Facilitating the meeting was George Alwon of The Raleigh Consulting Group, Inc.
There were 24 members present. They are listed as follows:
| Name | Affiliation |
| Jim Talton | Chairman, Citizens Advisory Committee |
| Allen Jones | DJB Construction Group |
| Ann Rollins | PTA |
| Bob Beasley | Mallinckrodt |
| Bob Williams | Retired, NCSU |
| Brooks Gulledge | Residential Contractor |
| Chuck Fuller | Citizens for a Sound Economy |
| Diana Bader | PTA |
| Don Walston | Howard, Perry and Walston |
| Dr. Edna Black | Education Management Consultant |
| Ferris Chandler | Retired, Cooper Tool |
| Joe Sansom | State Treasurers Office |
| John Boling | SAS Institute, Inc. |
| John Dornan | Public School Forum |
| John Hood | John Locke Foundation |
| Larry Dickens | DOT |
| Maebelle Hudson | Wake ACT |
| Nellie Tomlinson | Attorney, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice |
| Randy Jones | General Counsel - Aventis CropScience |
| Renee Shaw | CCB |
| Susan Fonville | PTA |
| Terry Yeargan | Bovis Construction Corp. |
| Tim McBrayer | Signature Publishing |
| Truman Newberry | Architect |
Those not present are as follows:
| Name | Affiliation |
| Blount Williams | Alfred Williams |
| Forrest Ball | Real Estate |
| John Boylan | Spectrum Properties |
| John Linderman | Grubb & Ellis |
| Ross Rhudy | Raleigh/Wake Board of Realtors |
| Tony Habit | Wake Education Partnership |
Minutes
The minutes for the meeting of March 3, 2000 are as follows:
1. Christina Lighthall gave a presentation in response to Bob Williams' questions/information requests from the Feb. 11 meeting. Some of her points of discussion were:
- Class size
- Methodology for school enrollment projections
- Housing growth in Wake County
- School crowding
- Use prototype design with a fall 2000 bond referendum
- Use prototype design with a spring 2001 bond referendum
- Accelerate school openings with a Fall 2000 bond referendum
- Prioritization criteria for future capital improvements
- What can be done to improve the school design and building process?
2. Marty Mitchell, WCPSS, presented "School Operating Costs." Some of the points of discussion were:
- School construction facts
- Major factors contributing to operation
- Typical life expectancy utility costs by school based on $1.00/sq. ft.
- Utility costs and square footage comparison
- The cost of building maintenance
- The attack of the $50+ million problem
- Square footage vs. M&O budget
- Equipment complexities
- Showed some pictures of Leesville Road central plant and gave costs of repairs, showed East Millbrook chiller replacement and cost, showed Ligon Middle School's new boilers and cost
- Age of school buildings
- Current M&O responsibility list
- General services - painting expenditures
- Energy and physical plant
- General services
- Business operations
- Positions, yesterday and today
- How do we compare to other systems?
- Public schools of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Statistical Research Section - Maintenance of Plant 1997-1998 state ranking
- WCPSS's completed work orders
- WCPSS's objectives
3. John Boling, SAS Institute, gave a Powerpoint presentation on "Instructional Technology" and what impact it has on education. Some of the points of discussion were:
- Digital revolution
- Digital generation
- Research update
- Apple classrooms of tomorrow
- Meta-analysis involving technology and achievement
- Kulik's meta-analysis 1994 and 1998
- Wenglinsky - 1998
- West Virginia BS/CE
4. A question was raised by one of the committee members - Does the county take into consideration other new facilities when planning school enrollment projections? The question was directed at Mike Jennings, Wake County Government. His response was: "You asked if the model includes consideration of children who go to charter and private schools. It does so only indirectly, in that the model projects enrollment of existing schools ( which automatically excludes those enrolled elsewhere), and also uses a figure that represents the percentage of children of each age who are enrolled in public schools. The latter figure is reevaluated to determine if it has changed."
5. The committee finished the discussion on New Schools
6. The committee began discussing Technology.