North Vancouver School District's Five-Year Capital Plan

Each year, Boards of Education are required to submit to the Ministry of Education a Five-Year Capital Plan that outlines high-priority capital projects within their school district.  The process includes the development and maintenance of a comprehensive Facilities Plan and a Project Identification Report (PIR) for each project that is identified as a priority and included in the five-year capital plan.  The North Vancouver School District's Long-Range Facilities Plan was prepared by Matrix Planning Associates in November 2007. 

In accordance with Ministry instructions, the Five-Year Capital Plan spans the 2010/11 school year in "Year 1" to 2014/2015 in "Year 5".  Capital requests are placed in the later three years of the Five-Year Plan.  The "key-drivers" of the Five-Year Capital Plan are enrolment, building condition, and seismic condition.

The North Vancouver School District's 2010/2011 Five-Year Capital Plan was reviewed and confirmed with the Capital Planning Committee.  The Committee's membership includes representation from the Association of Elementary Administrators (NoVA), Secondary Administrators' Study Group (SSG), Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 389 (CUPE), North Vancouver Teachers' Association (NVTA), City of North Vancouver, District of North Vancouver, North Vancouver Recreation Commission, and the Board's Capital Planning Trustee Liaison and the current Chairperson of the Finance and Facilities Standing Committee.  The Board of Education approved the North Vancouver School District's Five-Year Capital Plan at its Public Meeting on May 25, 2010 [Schedule C.1.].

The School District's highest priority remains the replacement of Argyle Secondary School.  The second highest priority continues to be the replacement of Seymour Heights School and assumes the consolidation of Blueridge School* into a larger Seymour Heights School.  The replacement of Handsworth Secondary and partial-replacement of Lynnmour Elementary follow in priority.

*Plymouth Elementary School was closed on June 30, 2010.  Students from the Plymouth catchment area now attend Seymour Heights Elementary School.  Blueridge Elementary School will close when a new school is constructed on the Seymour Heights site.  For more information, please refer to the minutes from the Public Meeting on April 20, 2010 [Schedule B.3.].