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Oakland Unified School District
FACILITIES ASSESSMENT AND MASTER PLAN
A systems approach to asset management that supports the vision for a full-service community school district
MKThink conducted an asset assessment that inventoried 108 sites, 1,334 buildings, and 12,188 rooms. Analysis of this data identified factors that affect facilities funding—school choice policy, enrollment projections, feeder patterns, classroom capacity and utilization. MKThink proposed a strategy to manage assets as a system (not site by site) to support OUSD’s vision for a Full-Service Community Schools district.
BREAKDOWN:
DATES: 2010-2016
CITY: Oakland
STATE: California
SIZE/SCALE: 5,926,301 SF
MARKET: K-12
SERVICES: Master Planning, Facilities Assessment, Physical Asset Management, Program Development, Feeder Pattern Study, Live-Go Analysis, and Scenario Modeling.
PROJECT:
CHALLENGE: In 2008, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) was $89 million in debt and faced a $18-million structural deficit for the 2010-2011 school year. This fiscal crisis demanded cost-cutting strategies to manage its 5,926,301-SF asset portfolio.
APPROACH: MKThink conducted an asset assessment that inventoried 108 sites, 1,334 buildings, and 12,188 rooms. Analysis of this data identified factors that affected facility funding, which informed the team's strategy to manage assets as a system (not site by site) to support OUSD's vision for a Full-Service Community Schools district.
RESULT: The MKThink strategy was the basis for the 2012 Facilities Master Plan, unanimously adopted by the Board of Education and funded by a $475 million bond.
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