2007 Citizens' Oversight Committee Annual Report

Status of Prop S & N Projects in 2007

YOUR COC MEMBERS Bobby G. Glaser, Chair Jaime M. Barton Andrew Berg Rocky Bragg Linda Caballero-Sotelo Margaret Fulton Harvey J. Goodfriend Tom Lemmon Jeff Marston John L. Morrell Rosalie Schwartz Carolyn Y. Smith Robert Villarreal Pat Zaharopoulos, Esq. In April of 2007, the following members ended their terms on the COC. They are recognized and thanked for their service: Evonne Seron Schulze, Past Chair Robert G. Antonio Catherine Clark Stoll Thomas Fat* Walter Heiberg Chris Pearson Roberta Spoon Reverend George Walker Smith *In memoriam

Propositions and Projects

Budget

Expenditures through 11/30/07

Status

City College

CITY COLLEGE S

Land Acquisition for Vocational Tech.

Center

$24,745,904

$24,745,904

Land acquired

Mesa College

S

Vocational Technology Center

$72,000,000

$4,568,696

In DSA* for review

S

Renovate Academic Success Center (“L” Building)

$8,006,812

$1,554,181

Construction in progress

Miramar College

S

Renovate “P” Building

$11,000,000

$639,194

Bid in early ‘08

S

Renovate “R” Building

$3,156,280

$3,033,182

Project closeout

S

Child Development Center (anticipate additional $3M state funding)

$8,000,000

$123,553

Design in progress

S

Modular Village

$1,605,000

$830,553

Construction in progress

S

Land Acquisition & General Purpose Classrooms

$82,200,000

$10,144,394

Acquisition in progress

N

Infrastructure- Phase I

$6,895,138

$437,545

Design in progress

MESA COLLEGE S

Allied Health Center

$21,889,397

$1,300,817

In DSA* for review

S

East Campus Improvement Project (Parking Structure/Police Substation/ Road Realignment)

$29,802,406

$7,728,766

Construction in progress

S

Visual Arts Program Remodel

$1,355,306

$1,303,087

Project close out

S

Renovate & Build Student Services Facility

$37,942,082

$924,507

Design in progress

East Campus Improvement ProjectPhase II (Mesa College Drive Entrance Road Realignment)

$4,000,000

$0

In DSA* for review

S

MIRAMAR COLLEGE S

Library / Learning Resource Center (anticipate additional $18M state funding)

$19,832,008

$2,580,867

To DSA* 11/08 (delayed for anticipated state funding)

S

Construct Technology Building

$23,341,500

$181,126

Design in progress

S

Construct Arts & Humanities Building

$23,341,500

$104,822

Design in progress

S

Hourglass Park Fieldhouse (additional $4M City of San Diego contribution)

$20,000,000

$7,120,699

Construction in progress

S

Infrastructure

$14,000,000

$1,474,301

Bid Spring 2008

S

Construct “Leave a Legacy Plaza”

$1,281,836

$1,287,036

Project closeout

San Diego Community College District

S

Reprographics/Mail room relocation

$1,176,569

$65,276

In DSA* for review

N

Regional Public Safety Training Center

$10,000,000

$0

Awaiting direction JPA**

N

$20,000,000

$0

Awaiting direction JPA**

3375 Camino del Rio South San Diego, CA 92108-3883 619-388-6546 www.sdccd.edu

Public Safety Institute’s Vehicle Driving Range

N

Automotive Technology Careers Instructional Building

$5,570,753

$12,803

Design in progress

CONTINUING EDUCATION S

ECC Land Acquisition, Relocation of Skills Center

$36,000,000

$12,272,992

Construction in progress

S

North City Campus (Consolidation of Career Center & Clairemont Campus)

$38,000,000

$21,645,696

Property acquired; Design in progress.

S

West City Campus (Point Loma Campus)

$16,000,000

$2,860,869

Construction in progress

Constance M. Carroll, Ph.D., Chancellor

S

Cesar Chavez Campus Land Acquisition

$2,381,651

$2,381,651

Property acquisition to date

David Umstot, P.E., CEM, Vice Chancellor, Facilities Management

S

Consolidation of Centre City & Cesar Chavez Campus

$40,120,755

$2,276,803

Acquisition & Design in progress

S

District Service Center Land Acquisition & Renovation

$7,574,254

$6,105,199

Phase 2 in DSA* review

S

District-wide Computer Hardware & Software

$19,000,000

$13,667,615

Ongoing

Board of Trustees: Marty Block, J.D., President Rich Grosch Bill Schwandt Maria Nieto Senour, Ph.D. Peter Zschiesche

Richard Dittbenner, J.D. Director, Public Information & Government Relations The San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) includes San Diego City College, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego Miramar College and San Diego Continuing Education. The SDCCD is governed by its Board of Trustees.

No oral or written representation is binding on the SDCCD without the express approval of the Board of Trustees.

San Diego Community College District

DISTRICT-WIDE

http://www.sdccdprops-n.com *DSA: Division of State Architect **JPA: Joint Powers Authority; County of San Diego, City of San Diego and San Diego Community College District.

Continuing Education

A Letter from the Chair Dear Taxpayer: It has been an exciting year of change and accomplishment for the Citizens’ Oversight Committee (COC). Our Committee has welcomed many new members as we were enlarged to provide oversight for both Proposition S and Proposition N. Combined, we are charged with monitoring 1.55 billion in taxpayer dollars as it is used to build and refurbish facilities for students of the San Diego Community College District.

First and foremost, your COC is proud to announce we have just received the FY 2006/2007 audit and once again the District has received a clean bill of health. The audit looks to ensure that your Propositions S & N dollars are spent efficiently on the projects you have approved. The audit by Caporicci & Larson affirms all funds were spent only on approved projects.

As for changes, your COC has been expanded and has adopted a new committee structure to provide greater participation in monitoring projects.

Sub-committees on communication, construction and finance & audit have allowed a more focused oversight of each sub-committee’s subject matter.

The content of this report, prepared by the communication sub-committee, provides the details of the District’s current Propositions S & N projects.

Even more information may be retrieved on the status of every project at www. sdccd.edu (click on Prop S & N).

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PROPOSITIONS S & N

Citizens’ Oversight Committee

ANNUAL REPORT 2007

Letting You Know...

You are encouraged to visit http://www.sdccdprops-n.com to learn more about Propositions S & N projects and the COC. The public is welcome to attend our bi-monthly meetings, please check the website for time and location.

District’s Bond Rating In June 2007, the San Diego Community College District received the highest possible rating for its construction bonds. Standard & Poor’s (S & P) Investment Services, among the most highly regarded bond rating firms, upgraded the District’s rating from AA to AA+. No other California community college district has achieved this high a rating, according to S & P. This was the first issuance of Proposition N capital construction bonds since the bond measure’s passage in November 2006.

2007 Project Updates Your COC is pleased to highlight the past year’s progress of Proposition S & Proposition N projects along with an outlook for 2008. In particular, we are pleased to report on the work of the two Continuing Education Campuses, the Skills Center and West City Campus projects below. Information on work at the college campuses may be found inside.

Award-Winning Skills Center Project Educational Cultural Complex

Construction is underway on a 52,600-squarefoot, three-building complex to provide expanded facilities for vocational classes including auto technology and graphic production. In 2005 and 2006, property was purchased to expand the campus to the East and provide the necessary space for this project, which includes landscape and hardscape improvements. The project has been designed to meet Silver LEED certification standards for energy efficiency and environmental Educational Cultural Complex sustainability. A ground-breaking ceremony held in November 2007 commemorated the start of the work. The Skills Center will provide new classrooms and related spaces for over 1,287 students each day.

Architect: NTD Expected Completion: September 2008

West City Campus Project Point Loma Continuing Education (CE)

Prop S funds are being used to rebuild a two-story continuing education facility that will house GED, BIT (computer programming), sewing, jewelry making, culinary arts, senior adult dance and other community programs. The construction budget is $11.9 million and construction began in August 2007.

This facility will provide new classrooms for over Continuing Education Facility Ground-breaking 1,539 students each day.

Left to Right: Bill Schwandt, Trustee; Peter Zschiesche, Trustee; Architect: RJC Architects Expected Completion: March 2009

Constance M. Carroll, Chancellor; Marty Block, SDCCD Board President; Anthony Beebe, CE President; and Rich Grosch, Trustee.

www.sdccdprops-n.com

www.sdccdprops-n.com

Propositions S & N Project Highlights Mesa College New Entrance and Parking Structure Project This project consists of three parts: 1) the construction of a new, re-aligned entrance road into the campus from Mesa College Drive; 2) a new five-story parking structure; and 3) a new police substation for campus safety. The alignment of the new entrance road eliminates existing surface parking. In order to provide temporary replacement parking, Mesa College decided to sacrifice the football field for the 2008 fall football season and play home games off campus. Temporary parking in the football field area will be used until the new parking structure is completed in late 2008.

Total construction costs for all portions of this project are $23.4 million.

Architect: Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker Expected Completion: January 2009

Allied Health Building

This new building’s design is complete and the project awaits State Architect approval.

Located very close to the new entrance to the college, the building will house dental and medical assisting, radiologic technology and health information technology. The Allied Health Building will provide classrooms and labs for over 3,196 students each day.

Architect: Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker Expected Completion: September 2009

Continuing Education

The District’s accelerated construction program will produce incredible results over the next four years. In that time the bulk of our projects will have started and many will be complete, thus realizing the ultimate goal of modern facilities for our students at all campus locations.

In addition to the Educational Cultural Complex and the Point Loma Campus projects highlighted on page one, design work will begin on the Clairemont Campus and Cesar Chavez Campus projects.

City College

“R” Building

Miramar College Hourglass Park Field House

Miramar College Leave A Legacy Plaza

This landscape/hardscape project completed in 2007 provides a beautiful connecting space between the science building, automotive building and student parking. Dedication bricks, as the name implies, can be purchased by members of the community. The proceeds from the initial sale of these decorative bricks paid for a portion of this project. Future proceeds will be used for other campus beautification projects.

Architect: Wimmer Yamada & Caughey

Hourglass Park Field House

This joint-use project with the City of San Diego will provide a gymnasium, community rooms, instructional classrooms, dance studio and concession stands. The project, located next to the swim complex, is under construction. The new Hourglass Gym will provide learning and recreation space for over 1,870 students and the public each day.

Architect: Carrier Johnson Expected Completion: October 2008

PROP S & N PROJECT AWARD The California Community College Facilities Coalition recognized one of the SDCCD projects in November 2007 for design excellence. This project was selected from community college projects throughout the state.

Mesa College Allied Health Building

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Design Awards Program

Professional

AWARD OF MERIT for Projects in Design Phase

Skills Center, San Diego Continuing Education Architect: NTD Architecture

This completed $2.2 million project adds classrooms beneath the lower level of the Learning Resources Center to accommodate increased enrollment and replace classroom space permanently displaced by the Academic Success Center. The classrooms house behavioral sciences, economics, English, foreign languages, humanities, music, radio, television and speech courses for over 2,166 students each day.

Architect: Carrier Johnson Opened: 2007

Vocational Technology Building

This new building, currently in the design phase, will house cosmetology, nursing and photography and an adjacent 700-space parking structure and will provide new classrooms for over 5,286 students each day.

Architect: Carrier Johnson Expected Completion: May 2010

West City Campus Continuing Education Facility

Financial Audit Prop S Audit has “No Findings”

The COC is pleased to report that the annual financial audit for the Proposition S bond fund was received with a “no findings or questioned costs” report. This “clean” audit reflects the sound fiscal administration of your voter-approved bond funds by the District staff. The audit is for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007 and was released this past December. A copy of the full audit can be found on the Propositions S & N website for your review. Required by state law, the audit reviewed bond fund expenditures to assure they were spent only on voter-approved projects and that no funds were used for administrative or faculty salaries. This is the fifth year in a row that the District has received an audit without findings or recommendations.

In closing, I want to acknowledge the passing of one of our outgoing members, Tom Fat. Tom contributed as a volunteer to many, many San Diego organizations over the past two decades. We were fortunate that he included the Community College District among these. Tom served as an initial member of the Proposition S COC and was an early advocate for having SDCCD building projects strive for energy efficiency and environmental sustainability standards.

Sincerely,

Bobby G. Glaser Chair Propositions S & N Citizens’ Oversight Committee

SELECTION OF DESIGN FIRMS Much effort goes into projects before actual construction begins. The COC has followed the process of the selection of design and project professionals necessary for Prop S & N projects. In September 2007 the District issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for architectural services for the remaining Prop S & N projects. They received written submittals from 55 architectural firms. Submittals were reviewed and ranked by a panel of District and College representatives. Rating criteria included experience on college facilities and references, among others. Twenty firms were interviewed and 12 firms were selected for contracts.

Architects Hanna Gabriel Wells Architects Mosher Drew Watson Ferguson Carrier Johnson Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker GKK Works Harley Ellis Devereaux Marlene Imirzian Associates Architects Ltd. Joseph Wong Design Associates Inc. Martinez + Cutri Corporation Architects NTD Architecture RJC Architects Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects, Inc.

City College Vocational Technology Building

In our role of monitoring Prop S & N, several COC members sat in on interviews as observers. In addition to recruiting and reviewing architectural firms, the District issued RFQs and developed short-lists for construction managers, appraisers and geotechnical and testing firms. Those lists are posted on the Prop S & N website.