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District unveils interactive facilities dashboard and cites $430M needs as consolidation rationale
Summary
SLPS operations staff and consultants demonstrated a public Power BI dashboard to analyze school capacity and condition; staff said the district faces roughly $430 million in facility needs over five years, including Prop S projects and deferred maintenance.
Chief Watson and district operations staff briefed the board on facilities and showed a live demonstration of an interactive Power BI dashboard developed with Courtigan Clark. The district described a five-year facilities need estimate of about $430,000,000 (inclusive of the $160,000,000 Prop S bond) and outlined categories of recent and planned spending.
"Over the past few years, we've done a deep dive... this gives us some guidance over the next 5 years of how we can prioritize the work," Chief Watson said while walking through deferred maintenance categories, HVAC and indoor-air investments, and safety upgrades. The presentation listed more than $54,000,000 in HVAC improvements, roughly $30,000,000 in building infrastructure projects, and about $23,000,000 in classroom modernizations tied to Prop S spending.
Courtigan Clark's live demo allowed the board to set a target year and select minimum enrollment and facility-condition thresholds to see which schools would meet or fail those criteria. Steve Raskin of Courtigan Clark said the tool is not a recommendation engine but a transparency and planning tool; staff told the board the public version of the dashboard will be published before the end of the week.
The financial case: the firm showed a 5-year cost-savings estimate of roughly $143,000,000 and a 10-year savings estimate above $300,000,000 if the district reallocated resources by adjusting building inventories based on the KPIs. Chief Watson and consultants said the dashboard also shows system-level deferred-maintenance and five- to 10-year capital implications for individual buildings.
The board asked when and how the community could access the dashboard and called for explanatory materials and a short video; staff said the dashboard will go live after a brief set of publishing steps and an orientation video.
Why this matters: The dashboard is intended to make key analytic assumptions and facility-condition data visible to parents, board members and neighborhood planners as the district evaluates consolidation and repurposing options.
