SELECT COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL FACILITIES

Standard Budget:             $19,800.00

Priority #: 1         Statutory Responsibilities.

The Select Committee is charged by statute to: (1) monitor the assessment of statewide school facility needs, the prioritization of those needs and remediation of identified needs as undertaken by the school facilities commission and department; (2) develop knowledge and expertise among its members relating to statewide facility adequacy; (3) prepare budget recommendations addressing statewide building and facility needs; and (4) review commission rules.

Priority #: 2         Long term maintenance of schools.

The Select Committee will study the necessity of maintenance activities and the correlation to the life expectancy of a building.  The review will include review of routine and major maintenance funds and the expenditure of those funds and the types of remedies that can be addressed. The study will include mechanisms to extend the life expectancy of buildings and facilities with targeted expenditure of major and routine maintenance funds.

Priority #: 3         Value engineering.

The Select Committee, in consultation with the School Facilities Department/Commission, will study the process of value engineering and will review potential mechanisms to decrease the costs associated with performing this task and increase efficiencies to realize additional savings and potentially using Wyoming contractors to conduct this work.

Priority #: 4         Energy savings.

The Select Committee, in consultation with the School Facilities Department/Commission, will study potential savings that may be realized by imposing guidelines or standards for the use of certain light bulbs or other energy saving elements that may result is significant savings over the course of the life of the building.

Meeting Schedule
3-1 day meetings

SELECT NATURAL RESOURCE FUNDING COMMITTEE

Standard Budget:             $5,000.00

Priority #: 1         Statutory Responsibilities

Pursuant to statute, the Select Natural Resource Funding Committee reviews projects funded from the wildlife and natural resource trust income account and monitors activities of the wildlife and natural resource trust account board.

Meeting Schedule
1-1 day meeting