Capital Budget Guidelines FY 2011

• Maintain a physical environment in our school buildings which is conducive to teaching and learning.
• Maintain educational and technology equipment, facilities, grounds and building
  services.
• Maintain an inventory of the durable1 educational equipment needed for students to experience the curriculum recognizing expanding enrollment.
• Evaluate our current inventory of computer hardware and peripherals and provide funds to increase, upgrade, and/or replace as necessary and consistent with the long range technology plan.
• Support funding of those items and services required to maintain, repair or recondition our school buildings, grounds and equipment, especially in the areas of life safety and accessibility.
• Provide and furnish appropriate educational spaces in order to maintain class size
  guidelines, to support the quality of learning experiences and to meet program
  needs.
• Meet legal mandates concerning accessibility to the curriculum and compliance with
  building codes as necessary.
• Develop and maintain an inventory of basic building materials and equipment.

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1 Durable is defined as having a useful life of five or more years and/or a unit cost greater than $5,000.

Voted by School Committee September 15, 2009