057-5 Wyo. Code R. §§ 5-10 - Capital Construction Requests
(a) Under authority
of W.S.
21-18-225, this section addresses the
development of a prioritized list of community college capital construction
projects, and the submission of this list to the State Construction
Department.
(b) The prioritized
list of community college capital construction projects shall include only
necessary building square footage required for provision of those education
programs serving the state's interests as described in Chapter 4 of the
WY Community College Commission Statewide Strategic Plan
developed and maintained under the authority of
W.S.
21-18-202(a)(v).
(c) The Commission's Facilities
Handbook shall be referenced for specifications regarding automated
programs and databases, forms, formats, timelines, documentation, guidelines,
facility classification systems, forecasting models, indices and/or other
factors.
(i) The Commission shall provide
guidelines and formats for community colleges to use in developing its
prioritized capital construction lists which are correlated to the WY
Community College Commission Statewide Strategic Plan.
(ii) The Commission shall provide access to a
statewide community college building database (otherwise referred to as the
capital construction database), a component of which shall be a facilities
inventory database.
(A) Community colleges
shall provide updates to the facilities inventory database in a timely fashion,
thereby facilitating both current and comprehensive descriptions of colleges'
built environments. Deadlines for all outstanding updates may be established by
the Commission in order to ensure the validity of computations inherent to, and
reports generated by, the capital construction database.
(B) Database information shall be used to
develop the long-range plans for building space needs.
(iii) The Commission shall identify and
implement a forecasting model to assist community colleges in computing future
student enrollments and related building needs. Model reports will be available
to the colleges upon completion of Commission-related database updates
including, but not limited to, population projections, enrollment projections,
student demographics, participation rates, distance education, utilization
hours, library volumes and student study stations.
(d) By June 1 of every year, the colleges
shall be authorized to submit for funding consideration capital construction
projects. Each submission must be supported by a Level I study, and shall use
the capital construction database described in the Facilities
Handbook. The proposed project must have an identified educational use
and must also be described and prioritized within the college's published
5-year master plan.
(i) No later than June 1
of each year, Commission staff shall forward the prioritized list, supported by
Level I design documents, to the State Construction Department in accordance
with W.S.
21-18-225(g).
(ii) An informational report will be created
related to the prioritized list given to the State Construction Department, and
will be provided to the commissioners at their summer meeting.
(e) Community colleges may submit
requests for authorization to construct without state funding, as provided for
in W.S.
21-18-202(d)(v). Such
requests shall be sent to Commission staff no later than 30 days prior to any
scheduled commission meeting for consideration at that meeting.
Commission-authorized projects of $1.5 million or more also require
authorization by the State Building Commission and the legislature, and
therefore will not move forward until the following October.
(f) Community colleges shall submit requests
for modification of capital construction priorities through resubmission of
their respective college master plans. Re-writes and updates to college master
plans must be submitted to the Commission within 30 days of college board
approval.
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