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DISTRICT PRIORITIZATION

As part of the Lodi Unified School District’s Facilities Master Plan. Level Three Priority Projects
Master Plan process, LPA interacted with a diverse
group of District staff, school site, student, parent and Three levels of prioritized projects were determined • Elementary School multipurpose room upgrades
community stakeholders to identify needs and develop a during the meeting and are outlined below: at deficient sites
Master Plan proposal for each campus within the District. • Lodi High School pool
Working with our cost estimator Cumming, the total cost Level One Priority Projects
for all proposed improvements is $1,474,159,000 in 2016 Given the range of possible funds, all the Level One
dollars. This total is inclusive of both hard construction • State School Facility Program (SFP) Eligible Priority projects could be completed in addition to some
and program planning soft costs at a 75%/25% ratio. Modernization of the Level Two Priority projects. As other funding
• Modernizations prioritized by District Stakeholders sources for the facilities improvement program become
Realizing that the educational program goals and school and the Executive Steering Committee available, such the passage of a State School Facilities
site facilities needs are above the current ability to fund • Fire Alarm and intercom upgrades list from Bond, additional priorities from Level Two and/or Level
in their entirety, the District engaged Dolinka Group to Maintenance & Operations Three can be added to the program in consultation with
develop a funding scenario for the Facilities Master • Replacement of portables over 30 years old with District stakeholders and the Board.
Plan. When looking at all local, State and voter approved permanent classrooms or labs (this includes
options Dolinka Group estimated that a range between associated Kindergarten play areas as they
approximately $346.7 million to $417 million could be apply)
available to fund the program. These dollars would • Lodi High School Classrooms Reconstruction
need to be spread across the entire ten year duration of • Tokay High School Gym
the program implementation. As a rule of thumb, LPA
suggested that no more than two-thirds of the funding Level Two Priority Projects
should be allocated to proposed projects in 2016
dollars. The remaining one-third would be set aside for • Replacement of portables over 20 years old with
escalation, interim housing, unknown off-site costs and permanent classrooms or labs (this includes
as a contingency for the facilities improvement program. associated Kindergarten play areas as they
This results in a total range of $232.3 million to $279.4 apply)
million available to the District to prioritize for Phase One • New construction of classrooms, science labs
of the program. and specialized electives to address growth
• Reconfiguration of Kindergarten classrooms at
In order to align the total program costs with the $232.3 sites with significant program deficiencies
million to $279.4 million range available in 2016 dollars, • Elementary School Library/Media Centers, Music
LPA asked the Facilities Master Plan Committee, and the and Fitness Classrooms at sites with significant
individual School Site Committees to list their highest program deficiencies
priority needs (see results on pages 132-148). The District • Middle School gymnasiums and changing rooms
also engaged The Lew Edwards Group to conduct a poll • Reconstruction of Lodi High School science labs
of the larger community beginning in April 2016. This • New construction of Tokay High School
stakeholder and community priority data was utilized by classrooms/science labs and modernization of
the Facilities Master Plan Executive Steering Committee electives
in a May 18, 2016 meeting to develop a prioritized project
list for the Phase One implementation of the Facilities

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DISTRICT PRIORITIZATION Lodi Unified School District