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WHAT IS IT?

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THE FACILITY• 4,000 seat stadium• Designed for both football and soccer• Provides student-athletes, marching bands, cheerleaders, parents and fans a

facility equal to other metro school districts• Benefits all 15 DMPS comprehensive high schools and middle schools

LOCATION• Drake University campus• Immediately east of Knapp Center• Land owned/purchased by Drake and donated to DMPS

OWNER• Des Moines Public Schools

OPERATOR• Drake University• This is a cost savings for the DMPS general fund

Learn more at stadium.dmschools.org

DRAKE STADIUM• Drake Stadium available for use for free for DMPS football games

PRIMARY USES• High School football (Hoover, Lincoln, North and Roosevelt)• High School soccer (all five high schools)• Middle School football (all ten middle schools)• Middle School soccer (all ten middle schools)• Drake University men’s and women’s soccer teams

OTHER POTENTIAL USES• Soccer tournaments• Sports and activities camps• Marching band festivals• Special Olympics Unified Sports events• Indoor practice facility during winter months


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WHY DRAKE?


HISTORIC RELATIONSHIP• DMPS-Drake relationship goes back 100+ years

ON-GOING RELATIONSHIP• Working together today on several fronts, such as:

ü Master’s degree for DMPS teachersü Numerous STEM, college prep, arts programs for studentsü 3D Coalition to recruit new educatorsü Boys & Girls Clubü Roosevelt football

SIMILAR NEEDS• DMPS considering stadium options for the past several years• Drake looking for on-campus venue for soccer teams

DRAKE’S LOCATION IN RELATION TO DMPS HIGH SCHOOLS


WHY NOW?

OUR STUDENTS DESERVE IT• DMPS students and families shouldn’t have to leave city limits to experience

quality facilities

LONG-TERM PLANNING• DMPS has been considering a central stadium for nearly a decade

FINANCIALLY PRUDENT• $15 million investment to benefit not 1 but 15 schools• Made $630 million in improvements to schools first priority• Costs will increase with each passing year



GROWING NEEDS• Increased participation in soccer and middle school activities• Worsening condition of current high school stadiums• Lack of synthetic turf, regulation soccer fields

IMMEDIATE IMPACT• Ready for use in a little over a year• Compliments other neighborhood, campus improvements

HOW DO YOU PAY FOR IT?

DMPS• DMPS would use $15 million in sales tax budgeted for a stadium• Sales tax revenue is directed, by law, to school infrastructure• Existing funds would pay for project• No change in taxes• No change to other planned school renovations• Stadium has been identified as a facility need for nearly a decade• Sales tax CANNOT be used to hire teachers and staff


DRAKE• Drake University will invest $4.5 million for construction• Drake will raise funds for additional stadium features• Drake will make multi-million expenditure to acquire land, prepare site• Drake is donating land to DMPS• Drake will operate the facility



SINCE JULY 2000, DMPS HAS SPENT $630 MILLION IN SALES TAX REVENUE TO IMPROVE EVERY SCHOOL BUILDING IN DES MOINES. EXAMPLES INCLUDE:

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WHY NOT SPEND ON SCHOOLS OR TEACHERS?

SALES TAX USE IS LIMITED• Sales tax revenue cannot be used to hire teachers or staff• DMPS has spent $630 million on school renovation and construction over

the past 20 years• Unlike many other districts, no sales tax revenue has been spent on stadiums

as school needs have been the first priority



WHAT WON’T BE SPENT ON THE STADIUM• General Fund

ü Used to hired teachers, staff, etc.ü Largest portion of the DMPS budgetü Drake’s operation of stadium saves general fund dollarsü NO general fund dollars would be used to build the stadium

• Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL)ü Used primarily for building maintenance and repairsü Recent increase dedicated to student technologyü NO PPEL dollars would be used to build the stadium

WHY NOT FIX CURRENT STADIUMS?

HIGH NEEDS• Hoover, Lincoln, North lack synthetic turf (exception is East thanks to

partnership with Grand View University)• Roosevelt lacks a stadium entirely• Hoover and Lincoln lack locker rooms• No regulation-size soccer pitch at any of the existing stadiums• All existing stadiums have multiple unmet code and ADA requirements

HIGH COSTS• Estimate to upgrade current stadiums to comparable level of the proposed

new stadium: $60 million• Cost per stadium ranges from $8 million to $19 million per school



WHAT HAPPENS TO EXISTING STADIUMS• High school stadiums sites will remain, and uses include:

ü Practice sites for football and soccerü Track and field practice and meetsü Greater access for feeder school events

FINAL THOUGHTS


EQUITY FOR DES MOINES STUDENTS• DMPS students deserve quality facilities for academics, arts and athletics• Should not have to leave city limits for that opportunity in sports• $15 million investment that benefits 15 secondary schools

WELL PLANNED AND FUNDED• Stadium has been an identified facility need for nearly a decade• Sales tax revenue only would be used to fund DMPS share of construction• Drake’s operation of stadium saves DMPS general fund dollars

IMMEDIATE IMPACT• Could be ready for use by start of 2021-22 school year• Complements other neighborhood developments• No need to wait to meet this need

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