Commissioners And Board Create Facility Advisory Committee
June 9, 2006--An advisory committee has been created and a consultant hired to advise the Wake County commissioners and school board on school construction.
The Wake Board of Education approved the slate of candidates for the Citizens' Facilities Advisory Committee at its meeting Tuesday, June 6. The County Commissioners approved the same slate at their meeting Monday.
The committee will include Fred Akins, retired Deputy Secretary for the Department of Transportation; Sepi Asefnia, an engineer at Sepi Engineering; Glenn Blackley, retired Facilities Manager for Wake County; Justus Everett, engineer and former President of ABE Utilities; Roddy Jones, contractor and chairman of Davidson and Jones Hotel Corporation; Russell Killen, attorney at Parker, Poe, Adams and Bernstein; John Mabe, attorney at Maupin, Taylor; Billie Redmond in real estate with Trademark Properties; Jim Smith, architect; Terry Stoops, policy analyst at the John Locke Foundation; Eddie Truelove, contractor and past member of the State Building Commission and Past President of the Association of Building Contractors; and Rob Weaver, banker and Senior Vice President and Marketing Manager of Bank of America.
The advisory committee includes members with experience in corporate leadership, construction, financial management or public administration who live in the community. The advisory panel will review projections for enrollment, review data for school construction costs and life-cycle costs, evaluate opportunities to reduce costs of new school construction and report back to the board, commission and public.
DeJong and Associates of Dublin, Ohio has been hired as a consultant to advise the Wake County commissioners and school board on the school construction program.