2026-11-12 Facilities and Operations Committee

At the Wake County Schools Facilities and Operations Committee meeting on November 12, 2026, staff reported on facilities projects, transportation, and equipment-record-and-disposition (ERD) practices. Transportation staff are evaluating whether to bring 50 van and Type A routes in-house and plan to purchase five hybrid vans for an in-house exceptional-children transportation program; no purchase amount or approval was given. Staff also described a paid maintenance pre-apprenticeship pilot. The ERD presentation covered surplus-asset management, including more than $1.2 million in revenue from surplus sales and asset recovery over roughly five years, and efforts to coordinate asset removal with school renovations. The committee approved the prior meeting minutes.

APC Towers presented revisions to its proposed cell tower at Brassfield Elementary, including relocating the tower 20 feet, reducing the fenced compound, adding an emergency access road and vegetation screening, and seal-coating the track at an estimated cost of $15,000. The company discussed district revenue of approximately $30,000 annually for the first two years and a 50% share of rent thereafter, including rent from future co-locators. The committee took no approval vote; the proposal is to be brought to the November 17 board meeting as an action item. Members also raised the need for further discussion of how site-based revenue might be allocated and for earlier joint review of proposed sites.