Menu of Creative Ideas for City-D65 Collaboration

Sourced from the community1

City Coordination

  • Share the cost of crossing guards with the City
  • Share the cost of Foster School pedestrian crossings and lights
  • Allow additional ticket revenue to benefit D65
  • Shared maintenance programs for buildings and grounds
  • Commodity purchasing
  • Shared outsourced services
  • Coordinated capital improvements
  • Establish Special Service Areas
  • Shared administrative services office space
  • Shared administrative services (personnel)

Facility Partnerships

  • Food pantry
  • Public library branch
  • Field house

Other Ideas

  • Event space
  • Theater groups
  • Health centers
  • Elderly services
  • Early childhood education
  • Tutoring center
  • Community education services
  • Arts classes
  • Lease kitchen space for caterers
  • Collaboration with education students in higher education
  • Bolster special education programs so that students being sent to private schools could remain in the District

Revenue Generation

  • Cell tower leasing
  • Solar panel leasing
  • Corporate sponsorship on District facilities

  1. Sourced from various community groups such as Washington Task Force’s Proposal, IINS’s Proposal, a memo from Vic Filippini, and the Legion of Data Nerds. ↩