Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1732

Establishing high performance school facilities pilot projects in independent
school districts 728, Elk River and 535, Rochester to define and demonstrate the
effectiveness of high performance schools as a solution to the need for simpler
school buildings with lower life cycle costs and to promote overall improvement
in school building quality, requiring the first phase of the project to define
the planning, design and process changes required to achieve high performing
schools and the second phase to provide for implementation of the improvements;
authorizing independent school district 728, Elk River to design and build a new
school facility and independent school district 535, Rochester to remodel an
existing school facility based on high performance design principles, specifying
certain pilot project requirements; requiring work in partnership with the
department of children families and learning serving as the overall project
coordinator, requiring a department report to the legislature by a certain date;
requiring the school districts to submit an integrated facility plan to the
department for approval before beginning the projects, specifying certain plan
requirements; appropriating money to the commissioner of children, families and
learning for the pilot projects (je)