Local Facilities Planning Committee (LPC) Facilitation Service

KSBA can assist school boards with the often complicated and emotional Local Facilities Planning Committee process.

The Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 mandated changes in the state’s school systems in order to provide equitable educational opportunities for all students within the school district and between school districts across the state. Quality school facilities contribute significantly to an equitable education. The state School Facilities Construction Commission provides funding for payments on school construction bonds based on unmet facility needs identified in the local district facility plan.

702 KAR 1:001, a Kentucky Administrative Regulation, gives guidelines for the development of local district facility plans. The process involves parents, staff, community and the school board. The superintendent is responsible for initiating the process by which LPC members are selected as detailed in the regulation.

Once organized, the LPC may request the local board of education to engage a facilitator. In the KSBA Services, the facilitator will work with the committee to develop a district facility plan for capital construction projects, which identifies the district’s most critical building needs.

The KSBA facilitator will assist the LPC and local board of education by:

  • Keeping the LPC focused on the planning process*
  • Helping to develop a time line
  • Providing order
  • Following the district facility plan developmental process defined by regulation and the Kentucky Department of Education
  • Securing research information or materials requested by the LPC or required by regulation
  • Providing direction and ideas to resolve stalemates
  • Remaining unbiased
  • Assisting the chairman and vice-chairman in developing LPC agendas
  • Helping to plan and/or facilitate the LPC’s public forums
  • Assisting in the presentation of LPC reports and the final district facility plan to the local board of education
  • Assisting with compliance requirements for legal advertisements
  • Maintaining contact with the Kentucky Department of Education’s Division of Facilities Management to resolve procedural questions and for submittal of the district facility plan for department review, formatting and feedback.
  • The KSBA facilitator does not write the District Facility Plan. All decisions related to the plan shall be made by the Local Planning Committee and the local Board of Education.

For information on fees and other specifics about the service, contact Mike Oder at KSBA at 1-800-372-2962.