Board Policy	No. 3510

CLOVIS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

BUSINESS AND NONINSTRUCTIONAL OPERATIONS Planning
SUSTAINABILITY, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH PERFORMING SCHOOLS

PURPOSE:	 To improve student and employee environment and reduce operational cost through reduced energy, water, and utility usage.

The Board is committed to designing new facilities and renovating existing ones that minimize the District’s demand for electricity and water in order to help conserve natural resources and to save money to support other District needs.

Safe and healthy school environment are important. Studies have indicated that student achievement is greater and attendance higher, and teacher and staff retention is improved, when the learning environment is naturally lit, comfortable, and well maintained. Based on this fact, the District should employ design, construction, and operation strategies that minimize operating costs, in particular for energy and water use.

The District's program to build new schools and renovate existing ones provides a unique opportunity to move beyond standard designs by using the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) comprehensive design criteria based on the latest available information on sustainable school design, construction, and operation. Studies show that new facility energy costs can be reduced by 25 percent or more by using the CHPS criteria. Schools that follow sustainable design principals can contribute to the community's environment by minimizing waste and air and water pollution. Therefore, the Board directs the administration to ensure that every new school, new building and modernization project, from the beginning of the design process comply with applicable laws and building standards and will incorporate CHPS criteria, as needed, and best practices to the extent feasible.

In addition, the Board directs the Superintendent or designee to develop an Administrative Regulation outlining the process for accomplishing this effort and to report to the Board annually on the progress of this program. The report shall reflect the number of new schools and modernization projects designed and the percentage which have incorporated CHPS design criteria and other statistics useful in assessing the progress of this effort.

Adopted: 07/13/2011
Amended: 04/22/2020 (BP 5107 renumbered as BP 3510)

EDUCATION CODE
8700-8707 Environmental education
17070.96 Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1996, consideration of high performance standards
17072.35 New construction grants; use for designs and materials for high performance schools 17608-17614 Healthy Schools Act of 2000

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Board Policy	No. 3510

CLOVIS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

32370-32376 Recycling paper 33541 Environmental education
101012 Kindergarten through 12th grade school facilities program

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE 13180-13188 Healthy Schools Act of 2000

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
114079 General food safety requirements; unused or returned food

PUBLIC CONTRACT CODE
12400-12404 Environmentally preferable purchasing

PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE
25410-25422 Energy conservation assistance 40050-40063 Integrated waste management act
42630-42647 Schoolsite source reduction and recycling assistance program

CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 2
1859.70.4 Funding for high performance incentive grants
1859.71.6 Additional grant for high performance incentive, new construction 1859.77.4 Additional grants for high performance incentive, site and modernization

CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 5 14010 Standards for school site selection

CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 13
2480 Limitation to school bus idling and idling at schools

CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 24 101.1-703.1 Green building standards

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