Full text as posted during the campaign.

Source of graphics above: Atlantic Monthly.

CCAC 2001 Report: “State of the Construction Program” 2001   Noted list the very large recent increases in the allocations for several projects (such as King, Transportation and BHS), review of the state of planning at Berkeley High, Recommendations about architect selection, pledge to stay cognizant of the implementation of BB

1998: Public Forum: "Mid-point Review of the School Construction Program"
Documentary Video by Quest Productions produced in collaboration with CCAC. Addresses by Superintendent, Manager of construction and administrators; presentations of issues and highlights of past reports by CCAC members. This forum and was an entire year in its preparation. Very sparsely attended by the public, it was of much interest to staff and to Board.

CCAC 1996 Report: Review of "Press" coverage and Policy Suggestions by Public Information Subcommittee.
CCAC 1997 Report: Public Information Subcommittee Report and Recommendations

CCAC 1999 Report: Principals' Needs Survey

Excerpt from CCAC 1999 Report: "A New School Bond in Fall 2000?" Recommendation to the Board for a new Facilities Maintenance Parcel Tax. This document was routed to Jack M.’s “cabinet” at the first meeting of the Facilities Finance Committee in November and never went to the Board. But it had larger practical consequence than any other CCAC-authored product.

CCAC 1996 Report “Comments by Budget Monitoring Subcommittee”

CCAC 1997 Report "Construction Cost Inflation. Analyses of the Sources of project cost inflation, and a prediction of funding shortfall. Methods of anticipating hidden costs and of overruns."

CCAC 1996 Report: (.9 Mb) “Compliance with energy policy and "life-cycle" costs for three projects, Malcolm X, Cragmont, Longfellow.”  By the "Energy, Environmental, Construction Documents, Seismic Safety Subcommittee."  Sample excerpt: "Design team of Cragmont predicts that Cragmont will exceed Title 24 energy standards by 47%"

Minutes of a Oct 15, 2002 meeting written up by CCAC. "Planning Issues Regarding the BHS Food Services Facility.".

Henry Sanoff and ELS Architects. Sponsored by CCAC; 2001 "Old Gym Pre-Programming Workshop Summary, June 20, 2001," still available as a Pagemaker file on CD. It yielded several alternate schemes for the rennovation of the Old Gym, the focus of the exercise. A summary is on the pre-programming website http://www.busduse.org/oldgym

CCAC 2004:  Background and rationale regarding this parking structure initiative see:
http://www.busduse.org/BHSParkingBackground.html

Jan. 7, 2003 CCAC authored a response to the Capacities Study, "BHS and K-8 Capacities Topics: Response and Counter-Analysis." The memo carefully analyzes the CFS study of Dec. 2002.

CCAC 1996 Report “Progress report on Computer Control System to track and generate reports for the management of on-going construction and cost associated with construction.”

CCAC 1996 Report: “Compliance with energy policy and "life-cycle" costs for three projects, Malcolm X, Cragmont, Longfellow.”  By the "Energy, Environmental, Construction Documents, Seismic Safety Subcommittee."  Sample excerpt: "Design team of Cragmont predicts that Cragmont will exceed Title 24 energy standards by 47%"

Website sponsored by CCAC chair. See "Master Planning" website http://www.busduse.org/oldgym.

CCAC 1999 Report:  "Transitions of Responsibility": Closing Gaps in Project Management

See "BHS Pre-programming", above

CCAC 1999 Report:  "Transitions of Responsibility": Closing Gaps in Project Management

CCAC 1999 Report: Pre-qualifying of Bidders: EMR (Experience Modification Rating)

CCAC 1999 Report:  "Transitions of Responsibility": Closing Gaps in Project Management

Project Manual Steps Overview   (Spreadsheet) A vetted, specific recommendation of policies and procedures for the “project manual”, a concept project proposed in 2000. This was a major CCAC work. Unfortunately, no suitable construction projects have since been commenced to which the concept could be applied.