Highline’s Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) practiced prioritizing school replacement and improvement projects at the February 24 CFAC meeting.
Capital Facilities Advisory Committee
Public schools belong to the entire community, and funding for capital improvements is generated though voter-approved bond measures.
It is essential community members help develop our long-term capital facilities plan so it reflects the values and priorities of the community.
In September 2015, Highline convened the Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) to develop recommendations for a long-term capital facilities plan. CFAC met monthly for a year to study facilities needs, review data and develop a plan designed to meet the needs of students over the next 20 years. The committee's work culminated in a bond measure on the November 2016 ballot and a working list of future priorities. Voters approved the 2016 bond with a yes vote of nearly 67 percent.
CFAC paused its meeting schedule during the first year of the Covid pandemic, and Highline pivoted to run a successful two-year technology levy, approved by voters at more than 74 percent. In the spring of 2022, CFAC reaffirmed 2019 recommendations for a Phase 2 school construction bond with a revised cost. Voters approved the 2022 bond (Phase 2) at an approval rate of 68.8 percent.
CFAC entered its eighth session of committee work in the 2024-26 school years to continue work over a two-year period on prioritizing our remaining 10 older school buildings, with the goal of proposing a next-phase school bond package to the school board by spring 2026.
What Has CFAC Accomplished?
CFAC is valued as a standing committee to advise district leaders on capital planning and boundary recommendations. CFAC also elects two members to sit on the Oversight Committee to review capital projects and bond spending in progress.
For more information on CFAC work:
CFAC 2024-26 | Community Recommendations for Future Facilities (Goal: Next Phase Bond Package Recommendation)
CFAC 2023-24 | Community Recommendations for Future Facilities (Priority List Review)
CFAC 2022-23 | Community Recommendations for Future Facilities (Priority List) - Continued
CFAC 2021-22 | Community Recommendations for Future Facilities (Priority List) - Continued
CFAC 2019-21 | Community Recommendations for Future Facilities (Priority List)
CFAC 2018-19 | Phase 2 Bond Recommendations & Long-Range Capital Facilities Planning
CFAC 2017-18 | Boundary Change Recommendations
CFAC 2015-16 | Phase 1 Bond Recommendations & Long-Range Capital Facilities Planning
How Are CFAC Members Chosen?
Municipalities, community organizations and staff labor organizations each appoint one member, plus each of our four comprehensive high schools each appoint one student, for about 20 appointees. The remaining 25+ members are community volunteers selected via lottery. Each session, we invite community members to enter their names in a lottery for open committee seats. We draw names from geographic service areas in our district to maintain balanced representation.
CFAC News
Highline Public Schools secured competitive interest rates on the latest sale of school bonds approved by voters in 2022. Learn how and why it matters.
Last week, members of Highline's community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) embarked on a two-year timeline to recommend the next school construction bond. They hope to reach consensus on which capital projects and what dollar amount to recommend to the school board by February 2026.
We drew names in the lottery for an open seat on our community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) on Wednesday, October 9.
Members of our community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) dove into enrollment projections and tax rates at their April 24 meeting. They are gathering the information they need to recommend which schools be rebuilt in the next school construction bond.
Our community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) meeting on October 25 was well attended by energized new and returning members.
We welcome eight new members to our community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC). From a lottery drawing on September 28, eight were selected by service area from the names of 28 Highline residents who entered the lottery for open seats on the Capital Facilities Advisory Committee.
Our community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee concluded its 2022-23 work session this spring by forwarding a living priority list of schools needing replacement to Superintendent Ivan Duran and the school board. The lottery for open seats on CFAC is now open!
At their January meeting, members of Highline’s community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) reviewed enrollment information, heard bond project updates and planned for building tours.
Superintendent Ivan Duran asked for a round of applause at the last meeting of our community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) to celebrate the committee’s planning work and recommendations in previous years that laid the foundation for the approval of the 2022 bond in November. Read a summary of the November CFAC meeting.
Our community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) held its first meeting of the 2022-23 school year on Wednesday, September 28, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the district central office. Read a meeting summary and learn more about planning for future bonds to rebuild other aging schools.
We welcome nine new members to our community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC).
The Highline School Board voted unanimously to place the next school bond on November 2022 election ballots. If approved by 60 percent of voters, the bond would fund new schools for Evergreen, Tyee and Pacific.
The School Board is considering a resolution to place a capital bond before Highline voters in November. The board is slated to vote June 22 on the resolution to place the bond on the ballot.
Two community member co-chairs and a high school student, all representing Highline’s volunteer Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC), recommended the next school bond at the school board meeting this week.
In March, community members from Highline’s volunteer school bond advisory committee overwhelmingly voted to recommend an updated fall 2022 bond package to the school board on May 18.
Thirty-five committed Highline residents are continuing a legacy of community service and involvement in long-term school bond planning. And now they are back to meeting in person… mostly!
Members of our community-led Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) toured five of our older school buildings on Saturday, January 22.
The community-led bond and boundary planning committee for Highline Public Schools presented a recommended set of boundary maps and a list of additional considerations at the June 6, 2018 school board meeting.
CFAC Contact Information
Rosie Eades
Communications Specialist
206-631-3002
CFAC Co-Chairs:
Omaha Sternberg & Shane Stender