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The Capital Master Plan office develops and monitors implementation of the APS Capital Master Plan. The Capital Master Plan guides expenditure of capital resources of the district.
Specific responsibilities of the CMP office include:
- Preparing enrollment projections for the district and each school
- Conducting utilization and capacity analysis
- Maintaining district school planning standards
- Evaluating the physical and functional performance of district facilities
- Identifying the need and placement of new schools
- Overseeing the process for making school district boundary adjustments
- Overseeing the process of developing the district capital strategy and preparing specific election packages
- Monitoring implementation of capital budgets
- Overseeing collection of school facility fees
- Preparing special studies regarding topics affecting capital budgeting to meet district needs.
Capital Resources
There are two primary sources that fund APS
Operational funds (e.g., money that pays teachers' salaries, heat and cool the schools, etc.) comes from the state based on a state-wide equalization formula
Capital funds (e.g., money to build new schools and renovations. Capital funds are approved by district voters and are based on local property taxes. APS uses both mill levies and general obligation bond issues:
HB 33 (House Bill 33)
- 5 year mill levy (pay-as-you-go)
- Traditionally, the major emphasis of HB 33 is to:
- Provide resources to renew existing facilities (school-based and district-wide funds),
- Address specific health-safety and code compliance issues and
- Provide for educational equipment and support.
- Funds are provided for every educational facility in the district through continued use of School Improvement Project (SIP) funds.
- HB 33 is also a contributory source of funds for additional classrooms and contingencies in concert with on-going general obligation bond cycles.
General Obligation Bond (GO Bonds)
- GO Bonds are Debt financing, where APS borrows money that is paid back by local property tax collections (traditionally issued every 3-4 years)
- Directed primarily for new schools, major additions, educational programmatic needs and school-based technology.
SB9 (Senate Bill 9)
- 4 year mill levy
- Used to address the maintenance and renewal concerns in the district. SB9 is traditionally allocated in a number of 'funds'.
- All funds are expended based on yearly plans
- Other Sources of Capital Funds
- Other sources of capital funds
- Land sales
- Not budgeted in CMP
- State Appropriations
- Direct legislative grants - not budgeted in CMP
- Provide information to schools about 'unfunded' projects to help direct state appropriations to appropriate projects
- Has been a significant source of technology funding
Public School Capital Outlay Council (PSCOC) Standards-based Grants
- New major source of funds for capital funding
- Public School Facilities Authority (PSFA) serves as staff to the PSCOC
- The State of New Mexico has adopted facility planning standards
- All school districts can apply for state matching funds if they have a five-year master plan on file and an approved maintenance plan. There are guidelines for master plans and maintenance plans.
- The degree of match varies from district to district -- APS' match is 54% (state provides 46% of approved project)
- State has developed priorities for funding based on a state-wide assessment of all schools. APS has 25 schools ranked in the top 100 schools eligible to receive funding.
- About $100 million / year is expected to be available until state needs are addressed
2006-2013 Capital Strategy
The current 2006-2013 Capital Strategy provides $962.9 million in voter approved local revenue to meet district needs from 2006 to 2013 + $114.9 million accepted from PSCOC for a total of $1.076 billion
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