Facilities: Finding the Right Place and Building the Right Space
This interactive session will prepare school leaders to effectively navigate the numerous requirements encountered on the road to finding, securing, and developing school facilities. Zoning, permitting, and occupancy requirements, environmental regulations, and design choices and constraints impact the development process. Learn about existing regulations, recent developments, and statewide trends as you build your facilities strategy. We’ll consider stick-built vs. modular, cost-saving design features, considerations when selecting a site, PLAs, CUPs, and more. We'll also examine case studies.
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Partner/Attorney
Young, Minney & Corr LLP
Widely recognized throughout the state as a leading authority in charters, education, and government law, John has counseled charters, public agencies, and nonprofits on operations, facilities, finance, governance, policy, innovation and other legal issues for nearly three decades. John is experienced in political advocacy and has litigated many of the most significant charter lawsuits. He regularly handles charter material revisions, petitions/renewals, lease/purchases, strategic planning, and authorizer relations, and has deep expertise in NCB schools. John is a frequent presenter to CCSA and numerous other professional and academic organizations, covering charter school law and policy, education, and government law.
Project Manager
Blueprint
Mary Grace Houlihan is a Bay Area native who has dedicated her career to both public and private development. She has served as a Project Director in Blueprint’s Northern California region since 2021. Before joining Blueprint, she was the Public Works Director for the City of Emeryville during the pandemic and previously held the role of Group Manager at San Francisco BART. Earlier in her career, Mary Grace worked in design and construction on projects spanning schools, public spaces, infrastructure, and housing/commercial development throughout the Bay Area and Central Valley.
She is a licensed Civil Engineer and Land Surveyor in California and holds a bachelor’s degree in Geology from the University of California, Berkeley.
General Counsel & Director of Facilities
Magnolia Public Schools - Magnolia Science Academy
Over two decades in a dual role as in-house legal counsel and project director for real estate acquisitions and development, successfully managing project scope, process resources, and professional teams through the entire development cycle, from acquisition or ground leasing to opening/ribbon-cutting.
A successful track record of ensuring cohesion between multiple parties to guarantee on-time, on-budget project delivery, executing an effective balance of diplomacy and determination in leading diverse teams of architects, engineers, contractors, attorneys, environmental consultants, municipalities and project managers.
Principal
Berliner Architects
Richard Berliner has over 35 years of experience in the architectural profession, most of which has been focused on the creation of innovative learning environments through collaboration with educational entrepreneurs. Richard assists charter schools in realizing their visions for innovative pedagogy and curriculum by designing learning environments that support and enhance the teacher and student experience. He helps schools understand how to meet the code, functional and spatial requirements to create the learning spaces they need in the most cost effective way possible. Berliner Architects has completed over 10 new schools and over 20 renovations and adaptive reuse projects.