San Mateo County Community College District January 26, 2000
BOARD REPORT NO. 00-1-110B
TO: Members of the Board of Trustees
FROM: Earl P. Johnson, Chancellor-Superintendent
PREPARED BY: Walter Zander, Director of Facilities Planning & Operations (358-6785)
AUTHORIZATION TO SUBMIT FIVE-YEAR CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION PLAN
On January 27, 1999 (Board Report No. 99-1-107B), the Board authorized submittal of the District’s 2000-2004 Five-Year Capital Construction Plan and related Initial Project Proposals (IPPs) to the Office of the Chancellor, California Community Colleges, in accordance with the Community College Construction Act (Education Code Section 81800, et seq., and State Administrative Manual 6610). The plan constituted the first part of the capital outlay proposal process and was prepared according to current guidelines. The State Chancellor’s Office reviewed and evaluated the 2000-2004 plan for conformance to existing guidelines and potential for funding.
The 2001-2005 Five-Year Capital Construction Plan reflects input received from the State Chancellor’s Office review of the 2000-2004 plan. In preparing and submitting the 2001-2005 plan, the District establishes and maintains its priorities with regard to funding improvements for buildings and facilities, improvements and modifications to meet the needs of the physically limited, and response to safety concerns.
The District Five-Year Capital Construction Plan for 2001-2005 includes six Initial Project Proposals (IPP) for which funding in 2001-2002 is being requested, and four Final Project Proposals (FPP). The following is a summary of each project to be submitted.
This IPP seeks funding to upgrade Districtwide facilities as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and in accordance with California Code of Regulations, Title 24. The project requests funding to correct the following items of noncompliance found at the District’s three Colleges: 1) site work, including ramps and parking lots; 2) doors, including minimum width and lock sets; 3) vertical access/elevators; 4) toilet rooms; and 5) other miscellaneous items. The need to bring the Colleges into compliance with current standards is critical to the instructional program and has been noted at Skyline College by the Office of Civil Rights. The total project cost is $6,824,477.
These projects seek to upgrade Building 6 at College of San Mateo and Building 3 at Skyline College. Both the architectural firm of Keller and Daseking and the State Architect's Office found that Building 6 at College of San Mateo needs seismic improvements to withstand future earthquakes. A FPP was submitted seeking funds for both of these important projects. The estimated cost for seismic upgrades to Building 6, College of San Mateo is $4,139,906 and to Building 3, Skyline College is $1,560,415.
FPP - CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
SKYLINE COLLEGE
An FPP project is being submitted to seek funds for construction of a Childhood Education and Development Center at Skyline College. The Center will meet the needs of instructional and student services programs at the campus, as well as in the community, by combining instructional demonstration space for childhood developmental instruction with child care facilities. The approximate 13,119 gross square feet of space planned for the Center includes four main care/demonstration rooms accommodating a total of 77 infants, toddlers, and pre-schoolers. Supporting the care/demonstration facilities will be office space, teachers’ preparation area, demonstration/conference room, isolation room and appropriate restroom facilities, ADA-designed for both adults and children. The building will include 7,700 gross square feet of fenced play yard area with appropriate playground equipment and play areas. The cost of the Skyline College facility is estimated at $3,845,000.
This project seeks to upgrade Building 7 at Skyline College. An extensive study by Rinne and Peterson found only minor structural deficiencies, while DGS-contracted structural engineers found the building to be lacking. In agreement with the Division of the State Architect (DSA)/Department of General Services (DGS), the State Chancellor’s Office and the District’s consulting structural engineers (Rinne and Peterson), this seismic project is being submitted as an IPP with the intent to reserve the District’s opportunity to seek potential future seismic upgrade funding while further study and review is performed by the appropriate groups. The preliminary estimated cost is $3,000,000.
This FPP is being submitted for a comprehensive, integrated Library and Learning Resource Center facility at Cañada College. The facility will address the need for multiple support systems to facilitate and enable effective learning. The new building will house the library; media services; open-access computer labs for basic skills, computer science, ESL and foreign language; and basic skills tutoring for reading, writing and math. The space will include a faculty resource center, teleconference center, and faculty/staff offices. At present, activities are decentralized and located in facilities too small to accommodate the needs of students and assigned staff. The building will be a two-story structure of approximately 30,500 gross square feet, of which 21,394 is estimated as assignable. This represents a 50% increase over assignable space in the existing Library and Learning Resource areas. An important secondary effect of this project will be a significant improvement in access along the multiple-elevations of the central campus for fire fighting equipment and for students, including those with physical limitations. The project has a total cost of $8,663,113.
IPP -
VOCATIONAL/TECHNICAL TRAINING ADDITION
SKYLINE COLLEGE
This IPP project extends two adjoining buildings at Skyline College to create space to house four high-demand occupational programs: Biology/Biotechnology, Telecommunications, Respiratory Therapy, and Emergency Medical Technician Training. These programs are currently housed in space inadequate to meet existing and emerging enrollment demand. In addition, all are housed in facilities that are either partially or totally inaccessible to disabled students and employees. The project also provides toilet facilities and elevators that meet ADA requirements in the two affected buildings. Programs affected by this project currently generate over 7,500 WSCH per semester. This project, originally submitted in 1995-96, has a total cost of $5,140,755.
IPP – CONSOLIDATION OF INSTRUCTION SUPPORT
This project was originally submitted as Master Plan Implementation Project-Phase I, College of San Mateo. The project title was changed to more adequately describe the scope of work. The project brings together student services programs, benefiting 11,500+ students, that are currently housed in four different College of San Mateo buildings at widely separated locations on the 153-acre campus. It creates a clearly identifiable Student Center that provides all of the services needed to matriculate and sustain a successful college experience for students. Registration, counseling, health, financial aid, EOPS, DSPS and other services will be placed adjacent to food service, student activities, and faculty meeting areas. In three of the spaces currently occupied by student services, the project creates educational environments where instructors coach, students work in teams, and distributed library/information databases are "at hand" through networked computer workstations. A cluster of interdisciplinary and public meeting spaces will be created that vary in size and type of technology available, including teleconferencing, clustered independent computer stations, and electronic media displays. The total project cost is $8,435,605.
This Educational/Facilities Master Plan IPP project calls for substantially increased ability to provide matriculation and support services to students at Cañada College. The Center will act as a clear entry point to the campus and will provide an easily accessible and highly visible array of services needed by Cañada’s 5,500+ students to begin and sustain a successful college experience. Student services are currently housed in unsuitable facilities scattered over the campus. The plan brings together counseling, transfer, and career center functions with admissions, financial aid, cashiers, DSPS, EOPS, health services, psychological services, cooperative education, student government and activities, and other student services. The project calls for remodeling existing student services, administrative, and vacated learning resource and space within Buildings 5 and 8 (both originally intended as a student center). It does not include remodeling vacated areas in Building 6 or the first floor of Building 5 (existing Library, Psychological Services offices, and a related classroom). Assignable square footage for these activities will be increased to more closely match State standards. The total cost is $4,212,777.
IPP - FINE ARTS BUILDING RENOVATION AND UPGRADE
SKYLINE COLLEGE
Under this IPP project, office space in the current Skyline College administration building will be converted to art, graphics, and photography lab/classrooms as originally designed. For the first time, the hospitality program will have lab/classroom space for meeting and convention planning, hotel reception, and light food and beverage preparation. The program will share a common kitchen demonstration area with a new lab/classroom for the home economics/nutrition program. Existing photography labs will be converted to a large, multipurpose group study area. Finally, the vacated home economics lab will be used to accommodate a new interdisciplinary wellness center focusing on the unique needs of ethnic populations in northern San Mateo County. Together, the programs benefiting from these improved spaces account for more than 7,300 WSCH. Administrative offices will be moved into spaces more readily accessible to the College’s 8,800 students, using space which was vacated when student services relocated to a new Student Center. This project has a total cost of $2,560,406.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees authorize submittal of the 2001-2005 Five-Year Capital Construction Plan and the related six Initial Project Proposals for first year (2001-2002) funding to the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.