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One of the encouraging
outcomes of the forum was the prospect of inserting language in
the anticipated November 2002 state school bond initiative
promoting the following three critical provisions:
1. Joint use incentives for
school districts, local governments, neighborhoods and builders to
increase the value of the school facility to the
local region and reduce urban sprawl by having schools serve as
community centers, day care providers, health clinics, libraries,
and the like, thus saving the time, money, land, and other
resources used to duplicate functions elsewhere.
2. Establishment of an
ombudsman office at the state level to knock down State
Allocations Board process barriers which hinder the advancement of
smart school construction. Smart schools encourage multiple uses
and they build intelligently for their environment, such as maximizing light
entering classrooms, window size, ventilation, shade, etc.
3. Creation of best practices repository at the state level to
track best practices for development of school
facilities and make them freely available to all school districts in the
state, so that successful projects can effectively share their
lessons learned with other schools throughout the state.
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