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1. Wheaton College (MA)
Whitworth University
Widener University
Wilkes University
Williams College
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester State College
Wright State University
Xavier University
Yeshiva University
Youngstown State University
Creating Alignment With
Non-facilities Professionals
Don Santostefano, Ralph Johnson & Kevan Will
July 12, 2016
1:45pm-2:45pm
2. Today’s Presenters
> Kevan Will; Account Manager, Sightlines
> 10+ years of tenure at Sightlines
> Has worked with over 100 campuses in 27 states
> Sightlines Operational Lead for Lebanon Valley College & University of Georgia
> Graduated from Gettysburg College with a BA in Management
> Don Santostefano; Sr. Director of Facilities Management, Lebanon Valley College
> 10+ years of tenure at Lebanon Valley College
> Proudest Accomplishments @ LVC:
> Successful energy management
> Providing excellent results despite a decreasing budget
> Ralph Johnson; Associate Vice President for Facilities Management, University of Georgia
> 14+ years of tenure at University of Georgia
> 24 years of service in the Navy as a Civil Engineer Corps Officer
> Proudest Accomplishments @ UGA:
> Energy conservation through investment programs in utilities and district energy plant expansion
> Training, development and continuing education programs for FMD staff
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3. Introduction to Sightlines
Don (Lebanon Valley College) – ‘Managing Up’
During Leadership Transition
Ralph (University of Georgia) – Communicating
with an Internal ‘Facilities Taskforce’
Executive Takeaways
Questions & Comments
Agenda
3
6. Who Partners with Sightlines?
Robust membership includes colleges, universities, consortiums and state systems
* U.S. News 2016 Rankings
Sightlines is proud to
announce that:
• 450 colleges and
universities are
Sightlines clients
including over 350
ROPA members.
• Consistently over 90%
member retention rate
• We have clients in
over 40 states, the
District of Columbia
and five Canadian
provinces
• More than 125 new
institutions became
Sightlines members
since 2013
Sightlines advises state
systems in:
• Alaska
• California
• Florida
• Hawaii
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Texas
Serving the Nation’s Leading Institutions:
• 70% of the Top 20 Colleges*
• 75% of the Top 20 Universities*
• 34 Flagship State Universities
• 14 of the 14 Big 10 Institutions
• 12 of the 14 SEC Institutions
• 9 of the 12 Ivy Plus Institutions
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7. ROPA+ Creates a Common Vocabulary
A Vocabulary for Facilities Measurement, Benchmarking and Analysis
Asset Value Change
The annual
investment needed
to ensure buildings
will properly
perform and reach
their useful life
“Keep-Up Costs”
Annual
Stewardship
The accumulation
of repair and
modernization
needs and the
definition of
resource capacity
to correct them
“Catch-Up Costs”
Asset
Reinvestment
The effectiveness
of the facilities
operating budget,
staffing,
supervision, and
energy
management
Operational
Effectiveness
The measure of
service process,
the maintenance
quality of space
and systems, and
the customers
opinion of service
delivery
Service
Operations Success
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8. Sightlines Drives a New Conversation
Facilities intelligence toolkit that connects the dots between space, capital, and operating policies
A new conversation around
facilities management…
• Treats physical plant like a core
business
• Uses concepts of endowment
management to contextualize
investment decisions;
• Aligns facilities operations and
capital investment with institutional
mission and finance;
• Uses predictive analysis to focus
on outcomes and not inputs.
• Lets you tell your “facilities story”
as effective as possible.
8
9. Three Phases for Continuous Improvement
• Base Data
• Trends &
Benchmarking
• Vocabulary
• Facility Relationships
• Track Performance vs.
“Best in Class”
Institutions
• Progress Towards Goals
• Predict Capital Needs
• Understand Facility Risk
• Identify Future
Operating Budgets
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11. Lebanon Valley College’s Campus Profile
> Located in Annville, PA
> 1,800 Students
> 925K GSF
> 65 Buildings
> 1,300 Beds
> 150 Maintained Acres
> Sightlines Member since 2008
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12. Leadership Transitions Since August 2012
New Special Assistant to
the President
2013
New Executive Assistant to
the President
2014
New VP of Finance
and Administration
New VP of Enrollment
2012
New President
2015
New VP of Advancement
New
Controller
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13. Challenge of New Leadership
New Leadership May Mean:
• New Ideas
• ‘Cleaning House’
What You Need to Do:
• Convey the Story
• Validate Performance
13
14. Message to Convey - Confidence in Facilities!
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We have been tracking towards those targets & goals.
We have established targets & goals.
We know how our performance has affected operations
and facilities.
We know how this performance compares with our peers.
15. Defending Funding Levels
• Target funding levels are known.
• Performance towards those targets has been tracked historically.
15
16. Defending Funding Levels
• Backlog has decreased because of funding
• We are doing a better job at funding than our peers
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17. Validating Operational Spending with Good Performance
“Let me see if I get this,
we’re spending a little
more operationally, but we
get a lot more out of it?”
-President,
Year 1
“I’m getting great value”
“It’s worth every penny”
-President, on the operational
investment, since year 1
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18. But…It’s Not Just the Data
What else is important?
• Impartial Review (3rd Party)
• Packaging
• Clarity of Information
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19. Keys to Ongoing Success
Keep it Collaborative Bring Something New Each Time
19
21. University of Georgia’s Campus Profile
> Located in Athens, GA
> 36,130 Students
> 10M GSF (>17M total)
> 266 Buildings (460 total)
> 757 Maintained Acres
> Sightlines Member since 2015
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22. Organizational Structure at UGA
Vice President for Finance and
Administration
Associate VP Facilities
Management Division
(Ralph)
Business
Management
Construction
Energy Services
Engineering
Grounds
Operations &
Maintenance
Services
Sustainability
Associate VP
University Architects
for Facilities Planning
Architectural Design
Campus Master
Planning
Construction
Management
Engineering Services
Geographic
Information Systems
Interior Design
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23. Facilities Task Force + Sightlines
Facilities Task Force
• Cross-functional group from outside of Facilities
• Examined entire spectrum of ‘Facilities Business’
• Compiled list of areas for
improvement/recommendations
Hiring of Sightlines
• 3rd party group to work with Facilities
• Examine all areas to ensure that good
performance indicators/measurements exist
• Measure work process and highlight strengths
vs. opportunities across each functional area
• Deliver presentation to Facilities Task Force
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24. Highlighted Strengths…
UGA’s campus age serves as a
strength – it contains less ‘high
risk’ space now and 5 years
from now.
Utility consumption is down
12% since 2010, creating a cost
avoidance of $4.7M.
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25. …And Opportunities
Customer communication and
reporting were highlighted as
opportunities within the CMMS
process.
Reinvestment lag has created a
perception that organizations are
being neglected – even though
appearance and condition
assessments indicate otherwise
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26. Task-Force Process and Report
Conclusion and Recommendations
Report With Areas of Focus
Benchmarking and Analysis
Includes 3rd Party Presentation
Data Collection
Client Surveys and
Interviews
Town Halls
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27. Facilities Response
Formulation of Approach
• Teams within Facilities
• Work Groups from Task-
Force
Majority of Issues Relate to Communication
• Establish CRM Position
• Initially Facilities
• Eventually More Expansive
• Improved Website & Connectivity
• Internal & External Process Implementations
• Customer Surveys & Measurements
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28. Post Task-Force: Currently Communicating Future Needs
UGA has approximately $800M of
Current, Renewal and Infr/Mod Needs
coming due over the next 10 years.
If Current Need can be addressed,
Remaining Renewal Need becomes
more manageable.
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30. Don Santostefano – Lebanon Valley College
• Establish and Track Towards Targets & Goals.
• Know Impact of Performance on Operations & Facilities.
• Know How Your Performance Compares With Peers.
• Convey The Message Clearly, Concisely and Believably.
Ralph Johnson – University of Georgia
• Communicate (with everybody)
• Educate (your customers)
• Collaborate (with stakeholders)
Executive Takeaways
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Presenter: Kevan
At Sightlines for over 10 years
During that time I’ve worked with over 100 campuses
I’m our operational lead that oversees our work at Leb Val and Georgia.
Don has been with LVC for over 10 years
His proudest accomplishments are his successful energy management program
And that he is able to provide excellent output despite decreasing budgets
Ralph has over 14 years of tenure at UGA, following a short stint at Penn State and 24 years in the Navy
His proudest accomplishments also include his energy conservation program –
As well as the professional development program he’s been able to create for his team at UGA
Presenter: Kevan
Presenter: Kevan
Presenter: Kevan
Very simply: We connect the boiler room to the boardroom.
We focus on communication. For 16 years, we’ve helped translate your data/information into knowledge that can create a story to then share so that action can be taken.
Presenter: Kevan
Can I have a show of hands for those of you that use Sightlines?
You help make up the blue on the map right here. We work with over 450 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada, comprising over 1.5B square feet. We work with institutions of all wealth, public and private, large and small.
We measure, analyze and benchmark hundreds of key performance metrics utilizing a common vocabulary.
Presenter: Kevan
This is that common vocabulary
We look at capital metrics and operational metrics.
Blah blah blah
Tying these areas together drives a new conversation
Presenter: Kevan
This new conversation looks at how space, capital and operations interrelate and impact the business of facilities.
An example is that if you ‘release the hidden value’ by elimination an eye-sore/maintenance nightmare on campus, you are reducing deferred maintenance, increasing utilization and potentially reducing operating strain
It’s important that facilities operations and capital investment are aligned with instutional mission
Presenter: Kevan
We are not creating a report on past performance…
We use predictive analytics to measure the impact of future life cycles of buildings and major systems coming due coupled with our analysis of your deferred maintenance and backlogs.
We also create performance dashboards to help you set and track performance to your goals while comparing you to ‘best in class’ institutions in our membership.
Presenter: Kevan transitions to Don
Presenter: Don
Presenter: Don
Full list of changes:
President – August 2012
Vice President of Finance and Administration – July 1 2014
Executive Assistant to the President – Sept. 9, 2013
Special Assistant to the President – July 1, 2013
Vice President of Enrollment – July 1, 2015
Vice President of Advancement – June 15, 2015
Controller – September, 2015
Plus… changes in the Trustee Committee Structure
“I feel like I’m working at a new institution” – Don
Note – these are all major stakeholders/consumers of Facilities
With Administration turnover like this, there is a potential for significant changes. New Administrators may have new visions for the institution, a plan to bring in “their” people, and/or scrutinize the existing practices more closely than their predecessors. If you are someone who has been with the institution for a while and you see this kind of change, it can be a little scary. You may feel that you need to “defend” your department and your decisions, or you may see it as an opportunity to advocate for the types of changes that you have been wanting to make but haven’t been able to in the past. I saw the new President as an opportunity, a change to prove that In either event, it is crucial that you have the credible data available to share with the new administration to make your case.
Don brought in Sightlines to LVC in the spring of 2008, and has been renewing their ROPA data annually since then.
Presenter: Don
New leadership means there are new ideas driving the institution. New President was more aggressive, had lots of big ideas and a vision for the future. Wanted to move on these ideas & visions quickly. The new president arrived 6 weeks after Middle States put LVC on notice. For the first year the new President was very focused on turning that situation around, responding comprehensively and quickly. Then, over the next 18 months, he started to make changes: the CFO, VP Admin, VP Advancement, VP Enrollment, and other.
Brought in Sightlines to present the ROPA information to the new President and the trustees to convey the history/story of the campus and also to validate the performance of the Facilities group despite the other turmoil on campus.
Presenter: Don
The main message that needed to be conveyed to the new leadership was that they should have confidence in the facilities group. To convey that message, we needed to show them the DATA to confirm that, and to prove that we weren’t just “getting through the day”, but we had organization, plans, and were actively monitoring our performance.
Facilities has established targets & goals across the board, in both capital and operational areas. These targets and goals were established in conjunction with a third party. These targets are set to insure that the campus is properly maintained, the value of our assets and investments are protected, that we are spending appropriately, managing our energy cost & consumption, and that our campus constituents are satisfied with the services provided to them by the department.
We know how we are performing towards those targets – at minimum, they are reviewed annually, many more often than that. As a result, adjustments can be made if we find we are off track from hitting our targets.
We are aware of how the performance towards these targets are effecting the big picture, and how that fits into the overall plan for the institution.
We also know what our peers are doing in each area, and how our performance compares with them. We can identify where we are behind our peers, and where are targets are helping us to outperform our peers as well.
Of course, it always helps if you’re conveying good news!
Presenter: Don (note: these slides are from the FY12 Trustee Presentation)
One of the main messages that needed to be communicated to the new administration was that the Facilities funding was at an appropriate level and should be (at minimum) maintained.
What made this a successful message? (first slide snip)
Being able to show that target levels are established and funding towards these levels are tracked. “We aren’t just asking for X dollars because we want it, we are asking for it because we need it, and here’s the data validating why that level is needed.”
Showing the result of the funding levels (reducing backlog), and comparing that with peer institutions (where backlog was increasing). (second snip)
Presenter: Don (note: these slides are from the FY12 Trustee Presentation)
What made this a successful message cont’d:
Showing the result of the funding levels (reducing backlog), and comparing that with peer institutions (where backlog was increasing).
Presenter: Don (note: this slide is from the FY12 Trustee Presentation)
We had to share what we were spending, what we were spending it on, and that we were spending it well.
Here’s an example of where it was crucial to have the peer comparison information. The top three charts show that we had more staff in all three major operational areas – maintenance, custodial, and grounds – than did our peers. However, when we examined the “output” of this investment, with what we called “curb appeal” and compared our performance both with our peers and with other institutions within our Carnegie Class, we were significantly outperforming both groups. Understanding the importance of the “first impression” of a campus on a perspective student, their family, or a faculty member, the President and the Trustees agreed that the resulting performance validated the funding levels.
The President understood this right away (click for animation of speech bubbles), that the value that we were getting from this higher level investment was worth the funding.
Presenter: Don
The data can’t stand alone, there are other key factors that contributed to the successful management of the leadership transition at LVC.
Having a third party review made the findings and recommendations drawn from the data more credible as they were objective.
Comparing performance with others (benchmarking), which means the data isn’t being considered in a bubble of “just our campus”. You can’t just know what YOU are doing, you need to know what OTHERS are doing too. This is another area where an independent firm helps, since that kind of perspective and comparison is very hard to do with the internal staff.
Packaging is very important – dumping a binder of data in front of the Trustees is not a good approach! Concise, summary level information is crucial. Don’t tell them every detail, tell them what they need to know, and make it easy to understand. Explain it clearly! Give them a high level overview.
Presenter: Don
Sharing the data isn’t a one time event, it’s an ongoing effort to ensure communication of important information to the Administration. LVC presents their annual performance data with the Trustees every year. The resulting relationship has been very successful. Some of the keys to the ongoing success of this communication has been:
Keep it collaborative
Meeting with the main stakeholders (in this case, sharing the full complement of annual data with the President and VP of Finance), who then work to pare down the presentation to the key elements before sharing the data with the Trustees.
This keeps everyone “on the same team”, and insures that everyone gets to communicate their message, so it’s not just my perspective, or the 3rd party’s perspective, or even the President’s perspective, but we instead prevent a united point of view and recommendations.
Bring something new each time
Providing the same metrics every year lose their “wow” factor, even if the story is good news. Bring something new each year. For example, this past year we wanted to look at how the operating costs tracked to the inspection scores, so we started to look at assigning a daily service $/GSF “cost” to each “point” of inspection score, and ended up with the resulting chart, that showed we were essentially paying the peer average for each “point” of inspection – further validating our operational funding compared to the output.