A
Quick Guide to Commission Programs
Classroom
Facilities Assistance Program (CFAP)
Serves the entire facilities need within a district.
Ohio law requires the CFAP program to begin with
the state's lowest wealth districts.
Eligibility:
All school districts beginning with the lowest
wealth.
Learn more about CFAP
Exceptional
Needs Program (ENP)
Addresses the health and safety needs of specific
buildings within a district. To qualify for the
ENP, the building involved must need replacement
as opposed to expansion or renovation.
Eligibility: Limited to school districts below
the 75th percentile or districts that are over
300 square miles in size.
Expedited
Local Partnership Program (ELPP)
Allows school districts to fund a distinct portion
of their Facilities Master Plan through local
monies prior to the time state funding becomes
available through the Classroom Facilities Assistance
Program. Once a district enters CFAP, they receive
credit against their required local contribution
for the work completed under the ELPP.
Eligibility:
All districts
Urban
Initiative
Provides facilities funding for the
six largest urban districts: Akron, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Toledo.
Eligibility: The six largest urban districts
Energy
Conservation Program (H.B. 264)
Allows school districts with older facilities
to borrow funds, without a vote of the public,
to make energy-saving facilities improvements.
The cost of the improvements may not exceed the
savings in energy, operating, and maintenance
costs over a fifteen-year period.
Eligibility:
Existing facilities in all districts
Extreme Environmental Contamination Program
The Extreme Environmental Contamination Program was established to assist districts with buildings whose "occupants are exposed to contaminants at levels which violate acceptable state and federal standards."
For a district to participate in the program, it must be shown that the building needs to be replaced rather than modified or renovated.
Eligibility:
All districts
School Building Emergency Assistance Program
Provides assistance to districts that experience
damage resulting from "acts of God".
Funding from the program supplements actual cost
of repairs and renovations as well as monies received
from insurance or other state and/or private assistance.
Eligibility: All districts
Facilities
Assessment Program
Offers school districts the opportunity to request
that OSFC assess the facility needs of the district
prior to their eligibility for state assistance.
OSFC provides an on-site evaluation, enrollment
projections and an initial master plan with an
estimate of project cost. The information provided
does not constitute any agreement to proceed with
a project.
Eligibility:
All Districts
Vocational
Facilities Assistance Program (VFAP)
Provides assistance to Joint Vocational School
districts for the improvement of classroom facilities
suitable to their vocational education programs.
State law requires that OSFC begin with the lowest
ranked JVSD and provide funding for the entire
districts needs.
Eligibility:
Career Technical School Districts
Vocational
Facilities Assistance Expedited Local Partnership
Program
(VFAP ELPP)
Allows Joint Vocational School Districts to fund
a distinct portion of their Facilities Master
Plan through local monies prior to the time state
funding becomes available through the Vocational
Facilities Assistance Program (VFAP). Once a district
enters VFAP, they receive credit against their
required local contribution for the work completed
under VFAP ELPP.
Eligibility:
Career Technical School Districts
Career-Technical
Loan Program
A zero-interest revolving loan fund provides up
to $500,000 to assist eligible career-technical
districts with the construction or renovation
of facilities or the purchase of vocational education
equipment.
Eligibility:
Career Technical School Districts
OSFC is not currently accepting applications for this program.
Community
Schools Classroom Facilities Guaranteed Loan Program
Provides community schools a state guarantee for
a bank loan to be used for facility improvement.
The guarantee cannot exceed $1 million for improvements
to a building owned by a school, or $500,000 for
a property being leased by a school.
Eligibility:
Community Schools
Please note that OSFC is currently revising the review process for this program and anticipates accepting new applications in late spring 2007.
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