School Facilities: A How-to Guide
This interactive session will prepare charter leaders to more effectively navigate the numerous requirements they will encounter on the road to finding and securing appropriate school facilities. Local zoning, permitting, and occupancy requirements and processes, environmental regulations, state education code provisions, financing options, and additional restrictions and requirements greatly impact the facility development process.
Learn more about existing regulations, recent developments, and statewide trends to contemplate as you build out your facilities strategy. We will also cover Prop 39 basics.
Presented by
John Lemmo
Partner/Attorney
Young, Minney & Corr LLP
John Lemmo has advised and represented charter leaders and schools, government agencies, and nonprofits on operations, facilities, finance, governance, innovation and other legal issues for decades. John is skilled in local advocacy, and has litigated many seminal charter school lawsuits. He regularly handles charter petitions/renewals, material revisions, mergers, authorizer relations, lease/purchase deals, complex regulatory matters, and strategic planning. John is a frequent presenter to CSDC and numerous other professional and academic organizations, covering charter school law and policy, education, and public agency law. He is a partner with Young, Minney & Corr LLP.
Sarah Kollman
Partner/Attorney
Young, Minney & Corr LLP
A dedicated and fierce advocate for charter schools throughout the last decade, Sarah Kollman has devoted her primary practice areas to protection of charter school facility rights, primarily focused on defense and litigation of rights arising out of Proposition 39, but also including facility lease and use agreements, zoning and building code compliance, public works requirements, and real property transactions.