Development of the FY 2025-34 Capital Improvement Plan

Every two years, the School Board adopts a Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) that addresses APS capital needs—investments needed to improve or enhance the infrastructure of our schools—over the next ten years. The CIP includes major capital projects, such as new schools and school additions, as well as major maintenance and minor construction projects.

Fiscal Year 2025-34 Capital Improvement Plan Direction

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-34 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Direction will be presented as an information item at the School Board Meeting tonight. The CIP direction focuses the work that will shape the Superintendent’s Proposed FY 2025-34 CIP that will be presented to the community in May 2024. Each CIP typically includes projects with their respective cost and timeline for completion. In addition, the CIP includes potential projects with placeholder costs that the School Board wants to study for consideration in future CIPs.

The FY 2025-34 CIP Direction will continue funding for the following projects included in the FY 2023-32 CIP*:

• Major Infrastructure Projects (annual funding);
• Kitchen & Security Vestibule Renovations;
• Synthetic Turf Projects; and
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System Modernization.

*The Arlington Career Center Project, which includes the new building, garage, and field, was approved and fully funded by the 2022 School Bond Referendum. The new Arlington Career Center Building is scheduled to be completed by December 2025.

The FY 2025-34 CIP Direction recommends incorporating the following new projects into the Superintendent’s Proposed FY 2025-34 CIP that will be reviewed between now and when the CIP is Presented in May 2024:

• Long-Range Plan to Renovate Existing Facilities – Feasibility (Deep Dive) Studies;
• Major Infrastructure Projects;
• Synthetic Turf Projects;
• Trade Center Optimization Study; and
• Future phases of the Career Center Campus, which includes the relocation of the Montessori Public School of Arlington (MPSA), reuse of the legacy Arlington Career Center Building, and demolishing the Henry (MPSA) building.

On December 14, 2023, when the School Board voted on the FY 2025-34 CIP Direction, the following amendments were made:

• Strike the bullet points that read “Relocation of the MPSA program. Identify the reuse of the legacy Arlington Career Center Building.”
• Replace them with “Relocation for the MPSA program into the legacy Arlington Career Center Building with options for least three different price points (low, medium, high), not to exceed $45 million.