Programming Documents for Pre-K for SA - The City of San Antonio

Meeting Notes
City of San Antonio Early Childhood Centers of Excellence – Brainpower Initiative
East and Westside Center Program Review Meeting – May 9, 2013
Distribution: May 14, 2013
Attendance
City of San Antonio (CoSA):
Kathy Buck Interim CEO, Pre-K 4 SA
Sandy Chevarria Center Director, Pre-K 4 SA
Bill Hensley Project Manager - CIMS
Facility Programming and Consulting (FP&C):
Molly Cundari Senior Facility Programmer
Meeting Overview:
The notes provided below are in reference to the meeting with Pre-K 4 SA
administration regarding the program for the East and Westside Early Childhood
Centers of Excellence proposed by the Mayor’s SA2020 Brainpower Initiative Task
Force.
• The draft program for the East and Westside Centers was presented and
lessons learned were discussed for inclusion in the final program document.
• Natural light in the classrooms was discussed at length. The program
for the new centers “requires” natural light in classrooms rather than
“desired”, as in the previous center programs.
• The North and Southside Center program document was utilized as the basis
for the program for the two new proposed centers. A third training room was
added to the program document for additional professional development
space, as well as to provide an area for scheduled school activities, such as
pre-K student graduation ceremonies, plays, etc.
• Several revisions to the draft document were discussed during the meeting
and have been included in the final document. They are as follows:
• Consider utilization of a visitor management/registration system (ie.
Raptor Security System or similar) to protect the students, faculty,
and visitors at schools. Such systems enhance school security by
reading visitor driver’s licenses, comparing information to a sex
offender database, alerting campus administrators if a match is
found, then (assuming no match was made) printing a visitor badge,
which includes a photo.
• Door hardware on exterior doors within classroom zone shall be
equipped with alarm to alert instructors / staff of unauthorized use.
Doors shall be provided with key-override for use by instructors or
administration staff.
City of San Antonio Early Childhood Centers of Excellence
East and Westside Center Program Review Page 1
May 9, 2013