Arizona School Facilities Board—Board should improve its school district facility renovation and repair project eligibility assessment, award, and oversight practices, and its information technology database management

The Arizona School Facilities Board (Board) provides state monies to public school districts (school districts) for statutorily eligible new construction, renovation, and repair projects for school facilities, and is responsible for maintaining a database that contains an inventory of all school district buildings. We found that the Board should develop and implement a formal project eligibility assessment and award process to help ensure that it approves only eligible school district projects. In addition, the Legislature should consider a statutory revision and the Board should revise its policy to clarify project eligibility criteria. Further, the Board should take steps to ensure that the school district facility renovation and repair projects it approves are completed appropriately and in a timely manner. Finally, the Board should improve its information technology database management.