Facilities Master Planning (2023-2024)

In alignment with our strategic plan initiative to secure our long-term future, the Belmont-Redwood Shores School District (BRSSD) is working with Dreiling Terrones Architecture (DTA) to prepare a long-term, 10-year Facilities Master Plan that will include all seven of our schools as well as the District Office. This plan will inform any near-term capital improvements and guide long-term planning for the District’s facilities.

The Facilities Master Plan, which started in September 2023, completed in June 2024, and adopted by the Board of Trustees in September 2024, consists of the following parts:

Component 1: Facilities Needs Assessment

BRSSD worked with DTA and its consulting engineers to visit and document all of the campuses within the District to understand the current conditions of the facilities, as well as engage the broader community through a series of workshops and digital surveying.

Community Workshop Dates:

• Central: Wednesday, December 6th at 7pm in the Central Library

• Cipriani: Thursday, December 7th at 6pm in the Cipriani Library

• Fox: Monday, November 20th at 6:30pm in the Fox Multi-Use Room (MUR)

• Nesbit: Thursday, November 9th at 7pm in the Nesbit Staff Room

• Ralston: Thursday, November 9th at 8:45am in the Ralston Library

• Redwood Shores: Monday, December 4th at 7pm in the Redwood Shores Multi-Use Room (MUR)

• Sandpiper: Thursday, November 30th at 7pm in the Sandpiper Electives Classroom (2-Story Building)

For those community members who were unable to attend an in-person workshop, the District prepared a digital survey; the survey closed for responses on January 31, 2024.

Component 2: Logical Project Outline

Based on the Facilities Needs Assessment, including the input from the community, the District worked with DTA to develop and structure a list of future projects, for a possible upcoming building program.

The Logical Project Outline considered:

• Needs Prioritization

• Funding Resources

• Planning Logic

• Construction Logic

• Site Impacts

• Community Input

This list of projects will be a tool that the District and the Board can use to determine what work should be done if and as funding becomes available over the next 10 years.

Component 3: Preliminary Budget & Schedule

The District and DTA will take the list of projects identified in the Logical Project Outline and assign dollar values and anticipated durations, based on the extensive design and construction experience of DTA and their consulting engineers. The Preliminary Budget & Schedule will work to anticipate peripheral project requirements that may arise during the actual design and construction of each project. This will allow the District to move towards project realization with the confidence that large project components have not been overlooked.

This preliminary budget and schedule, along with research into what funding and state grants would be available for the types of projects identified, will help BRSSD to continue its prudent fiscal stewardship of taxpayer dollars over the coming decade.