Urban areas are faced with limited space for new facilities and a limited funding base. Suburban areas of the nation have the newest school facilities, because this is where the recent growth has taken place in the past 25 to 30 years. Elimination of deficiencies identified in the GAO report and those identified since the report will require increasing public financing, while the number of citizens having students in public schools continues to decline. School facilities are part of the infrastructure of any community. The main revenue sources for states and local governments continue to be through taxes sales, real estate, and income.
Understanding is the key.
Therefore, the need is amplified for professional facilities managers to sort out the priorities and effectively apply available resources to rectify the most critical problems. Additionally, the future maintenance and renovation needs must be programmed and funded within the district's ability to provide resources. There exists no easy formula for prioritizing these issues, but efforts must be made to identify the magnitude of facility needs within each district and provide solutions. Many of the nations' school districts do not have professional facilities managers to guide the educational administrators and school boards in their decisions concerning facilities needs. In most cases, these school districts rely on local contractors to patch up today's crisis.