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DSA's New Plan Review Appointment Process Eliminates Bin Time

Posted on May 30, 2017 by CASH

We are sharing with you this important news that we have received from the Division of the State Architect.

The Division of the State Architect (DSA) is pleased to announce the upcoming implementation of an appointment-based process for project submittal. If the project submittal contains all necessary information and documents, plan review will immediately commence on the scheduled submittal date. This new process eliminates the “bin time” when complete plan submittals sat idle while awaiting assignment to a DSA plan reviewer.

DSA expects to begin scheduling project submittal appointments in early July, with the first appointments held in mid-August.

Since DSA’s current bin time is four to six weeks, this new process allows design professionals an extra four to six weeks to work on project plans. Elimination of the current bin time also results in significant individual and cumulative cost savings to clients and school districts by avoiding inflationary cost escalations.

Under the previous system, plans delivered to DSA waited for an intake review to ensure the package was complete, and then waited in a queue for approximately four to six weeks until the plans could be reviewed. DSA’s new process maximizes clients’ time because plans may be worked on and developed right until the agreed-upon submittal date.

This process applies to all projects other than those eligible for over-the-counter plan review. DSA will release further information and procedures within the next few weeks. Additionally, DSA will conduct a regional series of stakeholder outreach meetings commencing in Fall 2017. We look forward to implementing these improvements with you.

Please direct any questions to DSACommunication@dgs.ca.gov.

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CASH Alert: Encouragement to Attend the June 5, 2017 SAB Meeting

Posted on May 26, 2017 by CASH

May 26, 2017

On Monday, June 5, 2017, the State Allocation Board (SAB) will meet at 4:00 pm in Room 437 of the State Capitol to consider recommendations on the proposed Grant Agreement, True Unfunded List, and Acknowledged List. Click here to see the CASH letter addressing these proposals.

We encourage you to attend the SAB meeting and speak to your specific concerns about the proposals and how they will affect your school district or client district.

More information will be provided during the CASH Monthly Update Meeting also scheduled for Monday, June 5, 2017, at 11:00 am in the Lower Level Conference Room A at 1130 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95814.

We additionally would like to further encourage you to communicate your concerns directly to your State Senators and Assembly Members. The district draft letter found here, may be a resource in doing so.

~ Tom Duffy

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Posted in Finance, General, Legal, Legislation, Planning & Architecture, Proposition 51, State Agency, Uncategorized 2016 School Facilities Bond Initiative, 2016 State School Bond Initiative, Californians for Quality Schools, Charter School Facilities Program, Coalition for Adequate School Housing, CQS, Department of Finance, Division of the State Architect, DSA, Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2016, office of public school construction, OPSC, Proposition 51, SAB, School Facility Program, school finance, SFP, state allocation board, State School Bond, State School Bond Initiative, statewide school bond

CASH Alert: Please Attend the June 5, 2017 SAB Meeting

Posted on May 26, 2017 by CASH

May 26, 2017

On Monday, June 5, 2017, the State Allocation Board (SAB) will meet at 4:00 pm in Room 437 of the State Capitol to consider recommendations on the proposed Grant Agreement, True Unfunded List, and Acknowledged List. Click here to see the CASH letter addressing these proposals.

We encourage you to attend the SAB meeting and speak to your specific concerns about the proposals and how they will affect your school district or client district.

More information will be provided during the CASH Monthly Update Meeting also scheduled for Monday, June 5, 2017, at 11:00 am in the Lower Level Conference Room A at 1130 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95814.

We additionally would like to further encourage you to communicate your concerns directly to your State Senators and Assembly Members. The district draft letter found here, may be a resource in doing so.

~ Tom Duffy

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Posted in Finance, General, Legal, Legislation, Planning & Architecture, Proposition 51, State Agency, Uncategorized 2016 School Facilities Bond Initiative, 2016 State School Bond Initiative, Californians for Quality Schools, Charter School Facilities Program, Coalition for Adequate School Housing, CQS, Department of Finance, Division of the State Architect, DSA, Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2016, office of public school construction, OPSC, Proposition 51, SAB, School Facility Program, school finance, SFP, state allocation board, State School Bond, State School Bond Initiative, statewide school bond

Seminars from the California Debt & Investment Advisory Commission

Posted on May 26, 2017 by CASH

May 26, 2017

PUBLIC FUNDS INVESTING WORKSHOP: USING MS EXCEL

AUGUST 23, 24, 25, 2017  |  OAKLAND, CA  |  COST: $100 PUBLIC, $230 PRIVATE
This one-day workshop offered on three consecutive days uses Microsoft Excel to further participants’ understanding of key investment concepts. Participants will engage in interactive learning using their own laptops or tablets and spreadsheets to familiarize themselves with the relationship between yield, duration, and convexity. The workshop will conclude with an exercise on benchmarking. The class is limited to 20 participants per day. More information. Register.

ONGOING DEBT ADMINISTRATION

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017  |  SACRAMENTO, CA  |  COST: $150 PUBLIC, $250 PRIVATE
This seminar is designed to provide government officers with the knowledge needed to manage their responsibilities for continuing disclosure, compliance with federal arbitrage rules, and the investment of bond proceeds. Complying with both national and state-level reporting will be discussed. This seminar differs from CDIAC’s bond accountability and transparency program as this curriculum focuses on the larger practices of living with an issue over the life of the bond. More information. Register.

CDIAC’S 16TH ANNUAL PRE-CONFERENCE AT THE BOND BUYER‘S 27TH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA PUBLIC FINANCE CONFERENCE

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017  |  CARLSBAD, CA
More information coming soon.

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Posted in State Agency, Uncategorized

CASH Urgent Action Alert: Letters Needed from School District Members

Posted on May 24, 2017 by CASH

May 24, 2017

Dear CASH School District Member:

We are writing to request your help in communicating with your representatives in the State Senate and the State Assembly to ask for their direct action to assist us in:

  1. Focusing legislative pressure on the Department of Finance (DOF) to increase school bond sales for matching funds through Proposition 51 in years 2018 and in 2019; and
  2. Communicating to the State Allocation Board (SAB) concerns as to how the Office of Public School Construction (OPSC) and DOF are proposing to treat districts projects negatively that are on the “Acknowledged List.”

Unfortunately, in the May Revision the DOF did not change the state’s plan to sell only $600 million in Proposition 51 bonds between now and June 30, 2018. That rate of bond sales will not even cover the new applications being filed, much less the current $2.4 billion waiting list.

In communicating with your legislative representatives we ask that you cite specific information about your District’s projects waiting for state bond funding, including estimated state bond funding amounts. We request that you speak to the need to increase state bond sale amounts for purposes of funding your projects and the $2.4 billion in the pipeline waiting for funding.

It is important to note here that it has been proposed by OPSC that the SAB consider sending projects on the “Acknowledged List” back to the applicant school districts, thus denying funding to those projects.

To date, there are $2 billion on the “Acknowledged List.” This is a combination of new construction and modernization projects. If your District has projects on the “Acknowledged List” we advise that you specifically identify those projects to your representative and detail the negative impact that the proposed action to deny funding to the “Acknowledged List” will have on your District.

We suggest also that you communicate your concern regarding the proposed OPSC/DOF “grant agreement” that is intended to be applied retroactively to all projects waiting for funding, notwithstanding the fact that contracts have been signed or that projects have been completed and occupied.

The Legislature needs to hear directly from you about the specific harm that the proposed OPSC and DOF actions will have on your district.

Again those proposed actions are:

  1. Limit bond sales;
  2. Reject projects waiting for funding on the “Acknowledged List;” and
  3. Require that a grant agreement is signed for each project retroactively.

Please review the draft letter that you may use to write your own request that the state sells more bonds faster.

Please send your letter to your State Assembly Member and State Senator.

Thank you in advance for your assistance on this matter of importance.

~ Tom Duffy

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Posted in Construction, Finance, General, Legal, Legislation, Maintenance & Operations, Planning & Architecture, Proposition 51, State Agency, Uncategorized 2016 School Facilities Bond Initiative, 2016 State School Bond Initiative, Californians for Quality Schools, Charter School Facilities Program, Coalition for Adequate School Housing, CQS, Department of Finance, Division of the State Architect, DSA, Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2016, office of public school construction, OPSC, Proposition 51, SAB, School Facility Program, school finance, SFP, state allocation board, State School Bond, State School Bond Initiative, statewide school bond

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