Anchorage School Board: 09/01/2026: School Board Work Session

All right, good afternoon. We'll call the Tuesday, September 1st ASD School Board work session to order. The time is 4:01 PM. Present in the boardroom are members Blakeslee, Bellamy, Jacobs, Lessons, and Higgins. Members online are members McDonough and Wilson.

We have 2 items on our agenda today, the first being ASD asset discussion. Dr. Bryant, the floor is yours. Thank you, Mr. President. So our first topic will be a discussion on ASD facilities. After a number of months having collaborative conversation with the mayor's office, our team is finally ready to brief the board on some potential collaborations.

In the big picture, there are some facilities that the district and board have already declared excess and there are other properties that we want to make the district aware of because there is a potential revenue opportunity. So the big picture for this presentation is, um, Jim and Andy will recap what decisions have been made and what have those conversations with the mayor's office looked like. And if we were to move forward, what would be the major decision points for the board? Because the process of discussing collaborations on facilities is a process that requires both administrations, the assembly, and school board to work in concert. So this is just one of what will likely be several conversations.

So thank you in advance. Jim.

Okay, good evening.

So thought it would be useful to go through the last 4 or 5 years of right-sizing efforts and decisions to set the stage. In fiscal year '23, it was December 19th On 2022, after several months of community meetings and briefings, Abbott Loop was closed for the first time. It was then in the spring repurposed for ANCCS and then a couple years later repurposed for Rokoshula. In fiscal year '24,.