Facilities Advisory Committee

The Superintendent’s Facilities Advisory Committee provides recommendations to Des Moines Public Schools on priorities for how the district makes the best use of the state-wide sales tax for school infrastructure projects, along with other facility-related issues.

Areas identified by the committee as top priorities for school renovations include:

• Safety and security
• Replacement of obsolete, inefficient, or worn-out equipment or systems
• Money saving strategies
• Improvements to buildings which have not received major improvements
• Technology infrastructure upgrades
• Improvements to enhance research-based student achievement
• Ability to adjust to educational program changes

The committee will begin meeting in January 2012 to review district boundaries and explore grade configuration options.

Current members of committee are:

• Marvin Alexander
• Brian Clark
• Kris Cooper
• Joel Doyle
• Paul Kraus
• Burch LaPrade
• Ed Linebach
• Lowell Long
• Kent Mauck
• Meredith Mauro
• Susie Rider
• Twyla Woods