Building Information
Building age, average age, square feet, acreage

Construction

• Vendor Qualification – All potential vendors interested in submitting project bids must be pre-qualified prior to bidding. (click for form preview and procedure)

Local Option Sales and Services Tax – These funds are used for building construction and renovation activities including site acquisition. Our community passed this measure on March 2, 1999. The one-cent tax is designed to raise $120 million for long-term building improvements over a 10 year period. Expected and available funding has been earmarked through the duration of the levy.
List of future projects over the duration of the levy:

Elementary

• Buchanan – Student drop-off
• Eisenhower – Boiler replacement and window replacement
• Fillmore – Addition to increase classroom square footage
• Jackson – Boiler replacement, window replacement
• Lincoln – Centralized media center, office renovations – Completion September 2007

Intermediate

• Smart – Renovations of original building, window replacement.  Student locker, classroom door replacement, and exterior door replacement will be completed in September 2007.  Window replacement will take place in 2008.
• Sudlow – Renovations of original building, window replacement.  Student locker, classroom door replacement, and exterior door replacement will be completed in September 2007.  Window replacement will take place in 2008.
• Walcott – fine arts addition
• Williams – PE addition

High School

• Central – Gym addition, Kemper Hall renovation, boiler replacement (Completion January 2008)
• North – Physical Education renovation and expansion (Construction ’07-08)
• West – Renovation of science classrooms Completion August 2007
• Kimberly Center – Revised entrance.  Planning underway

Note:  All subject to School Board approval

Physical Plant and Equipment Levy
Passed on March 31, 1998. The Levy is designed to provide the Davenport Schools with income for short-term maintenance projects throughout the district over a ten year period. July 2006 will begin year 8 of the 10 year levy.

Projects (approved by voters) have been designated for the entire ten year levy. To review or ask questions about the extensive project list, please contact Bill Good, Director of Operations at 563.386.3351 or goodb@davenportschools.org.

Frequently Asked Questions about PPEL.

This levy is the main source for building maintenance needs. Thank you for the support!
 

Energy Services
The Davenport Community School District’s energy services program is responsible for managing energy resources for District facilities. This includes administration of a district-wide energy conservation program, purchase of electricity and natural gas both in the regulated and deregulated market, utility billing review, energy rebate processing, energy savings upgrades to facilities, and oversight of the district utility budget.

Energy Conservation Temperature Guidelines
It shall be the policy of the Davenport Community School District to follow these temperature guidelines for climate control in all district buildings.

Heating Season
	Classrooms/Media Centers:
	Pre-school and kindergarten	72 – 74 degrees
	1st through 5th grade	70 – 72 degrees
	6th through 12th grade	68 – 70 degrees
	Offices:
	All Locations	68 – 70 degrees
	Corridors:
	All Locations	65 degrees – Maximum
	Commons Spaces:
	Auditoriums, Gym, Cafeteria	68 degrees
	Warehouse, Maintenance Shops	65 degrees – Maximum
	Night Thermostats/Unoccupied Periods:
	All Locations	55 degrees
Cooling Season
	Air Conditioned Buildings
	Classrooms, Offices	76 – 78 degrees

Hot Weather Procedures for building staff

Buildings without air conditioning

• Daytime weather forecast is for temperatures above 76 degrees. Building custodians are to open classroom windows and turn on ceiling fans at the start of their morning shift.
• The district’s energy management system (EMS) is programmed to bring in outside air during unoccupied periods when room/zone temperature reaches 90 degrees. The EMS will automatically “purge” buildings in the early morning hours. Purging is a process of venting (or pushing) the warmer interior air to the outside and pulling in the cooler early morning air into the building. This will help to lower the interior temperatures.
• Night shift custodians are to keep windows open, closing lower level and first floor windows after these levels have been cleaned. Upper story windows are to be closed at the end of the shift, prior to securing the building.

Buildings with partial or total air conditioning:

• Buildings with operable windows- Daytime weather forecast is for temperatures above 76 degrees. Building custodians are to open classroom windows and turn on ceiling fans at the start of their morning shift.
• In classrooms that have operable windows the air conditioning is controlled by the outside temperature. Many of these rooms have energy beacons generally located above your rooms thermostat near the door. A red light will come on when the outside temperature reaches 76 degrees and the air conditioning system starts up. When you see the red light on it is time to shut the windows.
• Buildings with non-operable windows are air conditioned based on interior temperature of 76 degrees.

Energy Awards

Pictured above are representative of the Davenport Community School District receiving the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award.

Back row (l-r): Richard Walker, Mid American Energy Company- Commercial Program; Bill Good DCSD, Director of Operations; Kathleen Hogan, Director Climate Protection Partnerships Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Ralph Johanson, DCSD School Board Member

Front Row (l-r): Donna Neppl Cooper, DCSD Operations Supervisor; Mike Loehr, The Trane Company, Account Manager, Equipment

With 35 separate sites serving nearly 16,000 K-12 students in four communities, the Davenport Community School District is the third largest school district in Iowa.  An ENERGY STAR partner since 1998, the district has assessed the energy performance of 100 percent of its schools, undertaken improvements, elevated the average rating across the portfolio by 10 percent, and achieved a portfolio-wide average rating of 75 or better.  The benefits of the district’s energy program include reducing costs per student to $88.46 per school year (compared to the national average of $181.53 per student in 2004-2005) and realizing energy savings of more than $1 million over 3 years. The success starts with leadership at the top-the superintendent and school board.  It also includes school principals, custodians, administrators, teachers and students.  The district’s energy program concentrates on typical investments in building systems, but it also believes that a very strong component of responsible energy use is changing behavior.  By participating in activities such as the ENERGY STAR “Change a Light, Change the World” campaign and awarding high-performing schools ENERGY STAR qualified computers, the district believes that modeling responsible energy efficiency to students will help bring a better environment for future generations.

Schools that have met their Energy Goals

2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006
Blue Grass	Blue Grass	Adams
Buchanan	Buchanan	Blue Grass
Eisenhower	Buffalo	Buchanan
Fillmore	Eisenhower	Eisenhower
Jackson	Fillmore	Fillmore
North	Jackson	Lincoln
Walcott	Walcott	Truman
Williams	Washington	Walcott
		Williams

ENERGY STAR Building Label

Blue Grass	Harrison	Monroe
Buchanan	Hayes	Smart
Buffalo	Jefferson	Truman
Eisenhower	Lincoln	Washington
Fillmore	Madison	Williams
Garfield	McKinley	Wilson
		Young

Cost Savings by Year

2006/2007     $  605,168.00 As of May 2007
2005/2006     $  478,156
2004/2005     $  374,144
2003/2004     $  219,605
Total            $1,677,043
 

Integrated Pest Management for Iowa Schools: Nonchemical Pest Management Methods in Schools


The District has implemented Integrated Pest Management (IPM) procedures to control structural and landscape pest and minimize exposure of children and staff to pesticides.

There are three keys to successfully implementing nonchemical pest management. You must determine the pest’s (1) entry method, or how it gets into the building; (2) food, or what it eats; and (3) preferred climate, or what kind of environmental conditions it prefers. Once you know these things, you can set about to reduce, eliminate, or change them, and your work toward controlling the pest will be much easier.  (Click here for the check list)

Restrict ENTRY: There are a number of ways to restrict pest entry into buildings. One familiar example is the use of screens on windows and doors. Another method is to inspect all incoming products to make sure you’re not bringing insects in along with food and supplies. Other entry restriction methods include caulking openings around cable and pipe access points, installing weather stripping around doors and windows, and placing screen covers over floor drains.

Reduce the availability of FOOD: The best way to reduce the availability of food is by sanitation. Good housekeeping can go a long way toward making a building less attractive to many insects. Important steps include a good overall cleaning, regular vacuuming, and daily emptying of trash, leaving no dirty dishes in the sinks, and storing pet food in pest-proof containers.

Modify CLIMATE: Climate control methods make your school a less hospitable environment for many pests. Silverfish, booklice, and springtails are known as “moisture-loving pests” because they have definite preferences for damp areas. Your school will be less attractive to them if you repair plumbing leaks, insulate cold water pipes, and use dehumidifiers.

Climate control methods can reduce your school’s chance of being attacked by wood-infested insects. If the school was built on a crawl space, installing a vapor barrier should help to dry the wood and lower its attractiveness to insects. Carpenter ants often infest wood that has gotten wet when plumbing fixtures have leaked.

Climate control techniques can be used outdoors as well. Trimming vegetation away from the building, removing clutter, and replacing bark mulch with gravel or stone will help to deter millipedes, crickets, and earwigs.

To successfully implement nonchemical pest management in your school, remember the three keys: Entry, Food, and Climate. Take a look around and ask yourself some questions. How are pest able to get in, what can they find to eat, and how have your provided an agreeable climate for them? Think of ways to control these factors. Some methods are effective for controlling one group of pest and some for others. Use the take to help you decide which nonchemical methods might work in your situation.


Prepared by Dr. Peggy K. Powell
Pesticide Regulatory Programs, Plant Industries Division
West Virginia Department of Agriculture
 

Asbestos
Davenport Community School district meets all EPA and OSHA regulations in regards to asbestos management in schools.  Each building has a current Management Plan, which is available for inspection at any time. A comprehensive copy of all building management plans is also available at the Department of Operations.  The District actively pursues the removal of asbestos containing materials.  All newly installed building material are specified and certified as non-asbestos.  The district has a periodic surveillance program and is re-inspected every 3 years by a certified asbestos inspector.