CUSD Facilities Report- 16,000 Plumbing Work Orders - 3 Plumbers on Staff- No Williams Complaints on File?

April 27, 2016 BOT Meeting Agenda Item #21 Exhibit #21 page 325: School Dude and Planned Maintenance

STUDYS SHOW THAT WHEN BUILDING CONDITIONS ARE WELL MAINTAINED STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT ON TESTS SCORES ARE 5-17% HIGHER THAN PEERS WHO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION IN SUB-STANDARD BUILDINGS.

Capistrano Unified is overwhelmed with Sub-standard facilities.

Source: Meeting April 27, 2016 Agenda Item #21 Exhibit 21 at page 328 Slide 4 of 10 referencing the study that lead to the Williams complaint legislation: Do School Facilities Affect Academic Outcomes? Listen to Board Audio at 2:30:20 (A study that lead to Williams legislation).

It is clear from the Board discussion that facilities have not been adequately maintained for over 15 years. It is also clear that there has been no funding for preventative maintenance in CUSD since 2011-12, when the State of California allowed school districts to use categorical funding for general fund purposes. CUSD depleted its' deferred maintenance accounts with most of the funds going to employee compensation.

SO LETS BE CLEAR- CUSD CHOSE EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION OVER STUDENT SAFETY.

CUSD currently has $9.9 million in facilities funds but needs $84.1 million to bring facilities up to minimum standards. See:Community Committee on School Classroom and Campus Facilities. For more information see: Committed to Excellence

• 70% of CUSD schools were built 20 years ago
• 30% of CUSD school were built 40 years ago
• Our oldest school was built in 1929

* this is the Districts information but San Juan High School was built in 2007-08 making it 8 years old.

Parents and taxpayer should listen to the April 27th, 2016 Board Audio regarding an up-date on facilities. The big concern- HVAC systems so that CUSD can start the school year in August this summer.

Board Audio at 2:30:20
School Dude Tool has been purchased to prepare and communicate multi-year deferred maintenance plan for all sites. When the tool was implemented it showed the following:

Board Audio at 2:35:03 2016 CUSD had 16,000 work orders for plumbing issues with 3 plumbers on staff.

Board Audio at 2:35:39 In January 3000 open work orders 90 day turn around time

Board Audio at 2:35:49 2nd Quarter 2000 open work orders 60 day turn around

Board Audio at 2:36.11 4th quarter Goal is 500 open work orders 30 day turn around

Board Audio at 2:36:30 Comparison information CUSD vs Other Large Districts - majority of the work orders are coming from school sites for immediate repair- would prefer to be on preventative maintenance plan. Currently have 14,450 work orders less than 28% are completed in less than a week.

Note: The audio implies there are additional graphs and slides regarding this statistic but those additional slides are not included in the Board Agenda so the public has not access to these charts and graphs.

Board Audio at 2:43:30 Air conditioning Issues

• CUSD needs $12.5 million to put air conditioning in facilities that currently have no air.
• CUSD has replaced 53 HVAC systems this year
• The rest of the HVACs are past their lifespan (over 15 years) No funds and no staff to band-aid fix all these should they all go out at once. CUSD installed fans at Pallisades and Concordia but it causes power outages.

Board Audio at 2:45:50 Board Discussion of Aging Facilities and a Lack of Maintenance

For the past four consecutive years, CUSD has given all it's employee groups substantial across the Board compensation increases.

Average Teacher Compensation (Salaries, Pensions and Benefits):

• 2012-13 $ 95,673

• 2013-14 $105,340
• 
2014-15 $108,392

• 2015-16 $110,633

The District just approved 8% across the Board Compensation increases for 2016-17 totaling $22.1 million.
Source: April 13, 2016 BOT Meeting CUEA at page 282 CSEA at page 265

• CUEA (Teachers) $18.6 million (Average Cost per Employee $110,633)
• CSEA (Classified Staff) $3.5 million (Average Cost per Employee $55,512)

How does a school district justify employee compensation increases of $22.1 million when it is forcing students to attend class in sub-standard facilities? This money should have been used for facilities maintenance not employee raises.

At what point is their a question of criminal behavior on the part of the District in regards to the health and safety of students?

CUSD also found funding to hire Government Financial Strategies, a consulting firm, to actively market a facilities bond to CUSD parents and taxpayers. A practice that the State Attorney General recently issued an opinion on, stating that such a practice is a mis-use of public funds. See: Attorney General Kamala Harris's Opinion

CUSD students are are attending schools in overcrowded classrooms, with staff to pupil ratios that are not safe, in buildings that have not been maintained for over 15 years. There obviously should be Williams Complaints on file. You can't have 16,000 plumbing issues that take over three months to fix because you only have 3 plumbers, and not be in violation of Health and Safety Codes? Where is the oversight from the Orange County Department of Education? Or the State?

Employee compensation is over 90% of CUSD's budget-after an early retirement in 2012-13.

*Note- in the Bond marketing materials CUSD is representing that... "employee compensation is over 80% of the budget"; when it fact, employee compensation in over 90% of the CUSD budget. This is an intentional misrepresentation of a material fact. Source: 2015-16 July 1 Budget General Fund School District Standards and Review - 5. CRITERION: Salaries and Benefits at page 177 of the board agenda which states employee salaries and benefits are 86.3% - 92.3% of CUSD's Budget and that average salaries & benefits have been 89-90% of the Districts budget since 2012-13 and are projected to remain so through 2017-18.

Why should tax payers borrow a billion dollars to pay for facilities that the District chose not to maintain for 15 years so that employees could be paid more?

Who is representing tax payers and students in CUSD?

FACILITIES FUNDING

It is the State's responsibility to fund facilities for K-12 public education. The State cannot simply keep all tax money and then ask local Counties- Cities and Districts- to now tax the people two and three times for a service that the State is already Constitutionally obligated to pay for.

The Public education system is the State of California's number one Constitutionally mandated spending spending priority yet, in the State's 2016 5- year infrastructure plan there is no money budgeted for K-12 Facilities. The State wide plan for K-12 facilities under "Local Control" is to allow Counties- Cities and School Districts to fund facilities by passing local taxes (they are talking about giving Counties, Cities and School districts the ability to raise personal income taxes) and vote to approve facilities bonds so that Governor Brown can spend K-12 Public Education funds on High Speed Rail. It is unconscionable that the State should keep tax revenue that should go to K-12 facilities and spend that money on other projects (High Speed Rail) forcing the People to raise new funds to provide for clean, safe, warm and dry facilities. See: California 5-Year Infrastructure Program 2016 at page 52.

The People's elected representatives have unilaterally shifted the State's spending priorities from Public Education to other projects like High Speed Rail:

Transportation (High Speed Rail) $51 billion of the $55 billion in proposed infrastructure spending. See: California 5-Year Infrastructure Program 2016 at page 3.

COLLUSION BETWEEN THE PEOPLES ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES WHO PAID TO ELECT THEM

The People's elected representatives and the public employee unions that paid to elect them have conspired behind closed doors to enrich themselves at the expense of the People/Students they have been elected and hired to serve. The State's view of "Local Control" is to keep all current taxes at the State level, but push all the increased costs (for example- increased costs of CalSTRS and CalPERS contributions and facilities maintenance and construction) down to the local level, and then give taxpayers the opportunity to to fund public education through increased local taxes and bonds, fundraising and donations or allow their children to remain in sub-standard facilities.

The State does not have the authority to do that under the Federal and State Constitution.

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA via it's ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES have conspired with Public Employee unions to unjustly enrich themselves at the expensive of students and taxpayers.

They do not have the legal right to do that.

The "Road to Recovery" (State and Public employee "collaboration" is below...)

The goal is to fully recover public employees to record high compensation levels and then, if voters will agree to tax themselves again- we may see some reduction in class sizes, some restoration of programs and maybe some maintenance of the Districts facilities by 2021.

I won't vote for a bond now that I know that CUSD was willing to put the financial interests of employees above the health and safety of students.

I DO NOT TRUST CUSD THE CUSD BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF STUDENTS AND TAX PAYERS AS EVIDENCED BY THE FACT THAT CUSD WAS WILLING TO PUT OUR KIDS IN SUBSTANDARD FACILITIES IN ORDER TO ENRICH EMPLOYEES.