District Property Management

In today's Queen Anne News is an article concerning the district's property management: Plan to sell old QA school property triggers hearings.

Last month, other articles about district property management included:

Sell or rent 5 schools; hold on to the rest, land manager says (PI)
District to weigh plans for closed school sites (PI)


The Seattle School District's Closed Facilities Policy was last revised in November 1997, and is posted at: http://www.seattleschools.org/area/policies/h/H02.00.pdf.

I'm not sure what the district should do with the closed facilities, but I don't believe the school district staff should be spending as much time on property management as they do. I believe one of the CACIEE recommendations was to contract out property management to skilled professionals. Did that recommendation ever go anywhere?

Comments

Anonymous said…
FYI-- Other papers that cover education:
The Ballard News-Tribune, The West Seattle Herald
Charlie Mas said…
The District's property management policy appears to be: neglect and defer maintenance until the building is no longer functional. Then, use the fact that the building is no longer functional either as an excuse to renovate it or as an excuse to sell it.

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