Committee moves FAA technical amendment to use Facility Condition Index instead of KFI

The Policy Management Committee voted Sept. 16 to forward a technical amendment to MCPS policy FAA, changing the district's planning metric from key facility indicators to the facility condition index. Andrea Suyatocha, deputy chief of the Division of Facilities Management, told the committee the change aligns capital planning and the capital improvement program prioritization to a facility condition index methodology presented to the board Aug. 21. Suyatocha said the amendment is technical: it removes references to the previously used Key Facility Indicators (KFI) and replaces them with Facility Condition Index (FCI) language. "We are shifting for this year and moving forward our CIP planning away from the key facility indicators and using facility condition index," Suyatocha said during the meeting. She described the change as an update to the metric used for prioritizing capital projects and invited committee questions; none were raised before the committee moved the amendment forward. The motion to forward FAA for full-board approval was moved by Anew of Malu and seconded by Brenda Wolf; the committee recorded a unanimous vote. Committee members said the change was intended to make CIP prioritization more meaningful for executive staff planning. The technical amendment will return to the full Board of Education for final consideration. Staff noted this item is a policy text update and does not itself appropriate capital funds or alter project scopes; those budget decisions remain separate Board actions.