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CASH Maintenance Network: New Healthy Schools Resource

Healthy Schools: Cleaning, Disinfecting, Healthy Air Quality, Scheduling and Social Distancing
A Resource for School Facility and Maintenance Departments

COVID-19 has presented significant challenges as education and state leaders contemplate re-opening schools in a way that ensures they are clean, safe and healthy. The CASH Maintenance Network (CMN), as part of the Coalition for Adequate School Housing (CASH), has developed the Healthy Schools: Cleaning, Disinfecting, Healthy Air Quality, Scheduling and Social Distancing Guidebook to provide K-12 school maintenance and facility departments with guidance, Best Management Practices (BMPs), and key resources.

The “Healthy Schools Guidebook” includes information on how to keep students and staff safe, cleaning and disinfecting, ensuring healthy indoor air quality, social distancing and scheduling, and managing fiscal impact. The Guidebook was developed by practitioners from school maintenance departments, school facility directors, county offices of education, and private industry, and is intended as a practical guide. The CMN would like to thank them for their contributions to this project.

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CDE California Virtual STEAM Symposium Call for Presenters

To best serve the needs of the STEAM community, the California Department of Education and Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation are convening the same great California STEAM Symposium you know and love in a virtual venue. Mark December 11-13, 2020 on your calendar as you plan for another wonderful year of inspiration, collaboration, and professional learning. To submit your proposal by the deadline on June 17 and for more information about the symposium please visit:

https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/6cf49ddb-78ff-4d1b-93d5-71b76e16baf0

For questions please contact mstitt@cde.ca.gov.

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County Office Facility Planner Update – June 2020

Topics covered in this month’s update include:

  • May Revision Budget Update
  • State Allocation Board May 27 Meeting Update
  • CASH Maintenance Network – Developing Guidelines & Best Practices
  • CASH Legislative Advisory Committee Call for Nominations
  • Thank You to Our Virtual Event Sponsors
  • Upcoming CASH Webinar

Click here to view and download.

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Deeper Focus: Routine Restricted Maintenance Account

The Routine Restricted Maintenance Account (RRMA) has been the primary source of funding for school maintenance departments, and it has had a long history of being underfunded and suspended during difficult budget times. A brief history of RRMA funding shows that it has been consistently underfunded, “flexed” (i.e. allowed to be used for any one-time school expenditure not related to maintenance) during the 2008 Great Recession, and was folded into the LCAP when it was created (not technically cut but requires engagement in the LCAP process to justify maintenance funding related to the LCAP’s Eight State Priorities). CASH was critical in the creation of the RRMA, and continues to be key in defending its existence when necessary.

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