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Mr. Nelson Fialho/Mr. David Haglund Page 28 Preliminary Issues Assessment of Potential Colocation of Maintenance Facilities Source: March 2012 Final Report, Corning-Painted Post School District/City of Corning, Consolidated Fleet Maintenance Facility Feasibility Study, prepared by Hunt Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors, P.C.; City of Corning administrative record; Corning-Painted Post School District administrative record. Emails and phone calls to the Corning City Manager and the Corning -Painted Post School District were not answered. CASE STUDY 4 Agencies: Town of Windham and RSU 14 Windham/Raymond School District (Maine) Project: Shared Vehicle Maintenance Facility Background The Town of Windham, Maine (Town) built its current vehicle maintenance facility in 1978 and has since outgrown its size and functionality. In November 2017, the residents of the Town approved a ballot measure to fund a $9.3 million renovation and expansion of the existing vehicle maintenance facility, one they have shared for more than 30 years with the local School District RSU 14 (District). The new 30,000-square-foot facility will triple the size of the existing, 40-year old structure and be located on the same property as the current facility. A Shared Vehicle Maintenance Facility Joint Project Team studied the building needs and recommended the project that broke ground in May of this year. The new facility is expec ted to be completed in the summer of 2019. The Town and District are working on an inter-municipal agreement where RSU 14 would potentially pay about 25% of the new facility’s cos t through a lease-like structure. RSU 14 is a school district that serves students from the towns of Windham and Raymond. Both municipalities share in the cost of providing educational services and facilities for the K -12 population. In 2014, dissatisfaction with the way school costs were all ocated between the two towns led the Town of Raymond to initiate an action to withdraw from the District. A new cost allocation agreement between the towns was struck in 2015 and the effort was abandoned. The construction of the new vehicle maintenance facility has again caused concern for Raymond officials and a new petition to leave the District is being circulated. Raymond residents did not vote on the bond for the facility, because the Town of Windham will own the garage with space leased by the District. Yet they will share in the expense by way of a yet-to-be negotiated lease agreement. This, they claim, violates terms of the 2015 cost allocation agreement, which assigns all capital costs for school facilities to the municipality in which the facility is located.