Wolf Creek’s capital plan has been approved; what goes into it and what does it mean?
Wolf Creek Public Schools’ Board of Trustees has approved its three-year capital plan, but many people may be wondering a few things from a statement like that. What is a capital plan? What does it mean? How are priorities determined? And, does that mean my community is getting a new school or upgrades to my school?
I want to take some time in this column to try and answer these questions.
A three year capital plan is developed to address the modernization needs of the existing school facilities operated by the Board as well as the need for new or replacement school facilities. There are five project drivers considered: health and safety, building condition, enrolment pressures, functionality and programming, and legal. The drivers are reviewed for each school and prioritized based on high need, medium to high need and medium need.
Including outreach and colony schools, Wolf Creek Public Schools has 30 schools across the school division in and around nine central Alberta communities. We are fortunate in our division that we have an excellent facilities team that takes exceptional care of our schools. Their tireless work helps keep our facilities in great shape to best serve students, staff and our school communities.