School division maintenance reserve tool; Department of Education to develop or adopt and maintain.

Department of Education; school division maintenancereserve tool. Requires the Department of Education, in consultationwith the Department of General Services, to develop or adopt and maintain a data collection tool to assist each school board to determinethe relative age of each public school building in the local schooldivision and the amount of maintenance reserve funds that are necessaryto restore each such building. The bill requires each school boardto provide to the Department of Education in a timely fashion thelocal data that is necessary to ensure that such tool remains relevantand useful for the determination of maintenance reserve needs. Thebill requires the Department of Education to consider converting or using as a template the Department of General Services' M-R FIXtool to meet the above requirement to maintain such a tool. This bill is a recommendation of the Commission on School Constructionand Modernization.