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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".04" citation="COMAR 13A.01.02.04" title_num="13A" subtitle_num="01" chapter_num="02" heading="Facilities Assessment Survey.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The State Superintendent of Schools shall report to the State Board of Education the:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Condition of existing public school buildings;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Adequacy of existing public school buildings to support educational programs; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Cost to upgrade facilities to specified criteria.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Contingent on a State appropriation funding the survey, local school systems shall conduct a facilities assessment survey beginning in fiscal year 2008 and at least every 4 years thereafter.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Contingent on State funding, the Department shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Identify minimum criteria based on the most recent editions of federal, State, and local facilities guidelines, standards, and codes addressing building, site, student capacity, educational programs, and supporting services factors;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Identify current construction cost estimate parameters using data from the Interagency Committee on School Construction; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Consult with representatives of local school systems prior to issuing the assessment criteria, construction cost parameters, and survey instrument.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Local School Systems.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Subject to §D(2) of this regulation and contingent on State funding, local school systems shall:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Assess the adequacy of public school facilities by applying specific minimum criteria to specified building elements in individual schools and report individual school data to the Department; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Estimate the construction cost to remedy facilities deficiencies in individual schools and report individual school data to the Department.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Local school systems may exempt school buildings proposed for closing within the next 4-year period from the survey.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>The Department shall compile the assessment and cost data into composite findings for the school system and the State and compare these findings to the Final Report of the Task Force to Study Public School Facilities, dated February 2004.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>The Department may not release any individual school data.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>