Arizona's school facilities responsibilities were restructured in recent years. Legislation (HB 2679) moved day-to-day administration from the former School Facilities Board to the Arizona Department of Administration, with a School Facilities Oversight Board providing oversight. "SFD" means the School Facilities Division within ADOA.

The core requirements are found in A.R.S. § 41-5702 and A.R.S. § 41-5731:

Written PM guidelines. Each district must develop routine preventive maintenance guidelines for its facilities. The guidelines must cover plumbing, electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), special equipment, and other systems. For roofing, they must recommend visual inspections by district staff for signs of structural stress and weakness.

Annual reporting by September 1. Districts must report to the division no later than September 1 each year the information the division requires to administer the Building Renewal Grant fund.

Building Renewal Grant applications. To request Building Renewal Grant money, a district must report the preventive maintenance activities completed during the previous twelve months for the specific facility the request covers. The statute defines routine preventive maintenance as services performed on a regular schedule, at intervals from four times a year to once every three years, to extend building life and reduce major repairs.

Inspections. SFD must inspect, contract with a third party to inspect, or certify district self-inspections of school buildings at least once every five years. The division also randomly selects twenty districts every thirty months for inspection.

Three practical consequences make this a superintendent-level issue rather than a task to leave entirely to the facilities office.

Funding access. Building Renewal Grant requests depend on documented PM activity. If your records for a facility are thin, incomplete, or hard to retrieve, your application is harder to support. With state facilities funding under significant pressure, and the current funding system the subject of ongoing litigation and legislative debate, districts cannot afford avoidable weaknesses in their applications.

Inspection exposure. Your written guidelines become the yardstick. A guideline your team cannot demonstrate it follows is a liability, and a guideline that promises more than your staff can deliver is worse than a realistic one.

Asset protection. Roofs, HVAC, and building envelope failures are among the costliest surprises in a district's capital picture. Documented, scheduled PM is the least expensive way to extend the life of the buildings your community has already paid for.

1. Confirm your district has current, board-reviewed written PM guidelines covering plumbing, electrical, HVAC, special equipment, and roofing.
2. Verify the guidelines were submitted to and are on file with SFD.
3. Assign clear ownership for the September 1 annual report, with an internal deadline weeks earlier.
4. Make sure completed PM tasks are logged by building, system, date, and responsible staff member, so you can sort 12 months of data on request.
5. Confirm roofs are visually inspected on a schedule and that findings and follow-up repairs are documented.
6. Prepare for inspection: know when each campus was last inspected and what deficiencies remain open.
7. Review how PM records connect to your Building Renewal Grant requests before you apply.

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