Regina Foundation

MISSION: To enhance the long-term financial strength of the Regina Catholic Education Center.

MISSION: To enhance the long-term financial strength of the Regina Catholic Education Center

Capital Campaign

With the identification of our most immediate needs, school leadership realized the Regina community is at a true crossroads. We worked diligently to design a bold vision to enhance the “Regina experience” for all students and build upon our historically strong foundation. This plan will help further distinguish Regina as the premier Catholic, pre-K through 12th grade school in the area and make it as accessible as possible to all families who seek a faith-based education.

Regina leadership is proud to announce the Pride in Our Past, Building Our Future Capital Campaign. Through this major, three-year fundraising effort, we will take a large step toward realizing the vision for the future and will address as many of the following needs as possible. We will focus on our most urgent facility improvements.

Give online now or download a pledge form here and mail to Regina Foundation, 2140 Rochester Ave, Iowa City IA 52245.

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ADDITIONAL ENTRANCE AND EXIT OFF FIRST AVENUE ($250,000) 

The city has mandated that before Regina can address any physical needs on campus, a second entrance and exit to the school must be built from First Avenue. This additional entrance/exit will create a more efficient traffic flow for dropping off and picking up our early-childhood and elementary students. It also will provide a much safer environment by allowing easier emergency-vehicle access to the rear of the school. This has been a need for over a decade. The time to make it happen is now.

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PHYSICAL UPDATES ($305,000) 

  • Upgrade boys and girls locker rooms and bathrooms
    All locker rooms and bathrooms have remained virtually untouched since the school was built in 1957. Improvements to them are badly needed for our current and future students. Our first upgrade will be to replace our lockers, fixtures, flooring, showers and toilets, bringing them up to modern standards. We will also provide secure entrance and exit points for both rooms to eliminate unwanted traffic in these areas. 
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  • Repair gym roof
    The current gym roof, built in the late 1980s, is badly in need of repair. It requires from three to five service calls per year for maintenance, which costs the school time and money. There are often leaks onto the high school gymnasium floor, which has impaired sporting events and other school events. A new roof over the gym will last approximately twenty years. This complete repair now will eliminate the need for future maintenance and save the school money in the long term.  
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  • Install security upgrades
    Enhancing the safety of all of our students is a priority. Our intercom system, dating to the 1950s, is antiquated and unable to support the software that many schools now use. We will upgrade our security intercom system throughout the school and sync it with our internal clocks, which often run behind. In addition, we will install no less than six external cameras and up to 10 internal cameras in our hallways. 
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RESURFACE AND EXPAND FRONT PARKING LOT ($375,000)

Those who use our current parking lot on the elementary side understand the need to address the ongoing maintenance of the parking surface. It has been more than 15 years since we repaved the parking lot, and the wear has gotten to the point that we can no longer continue our cycle of temporary fixes. There are also tripping hazards throughout. We will resurface the front parking lot and the pickup/dropoff circle in front of the school and will expand the entrance at the front of the school to improve traffic flow. In addition to the resurfacing, we will be almost doubling the size of this lot by adding 75 spaces.

Both the physical updates to the school and the parking lot resurfacing will be completed in the summer of 2017 to avoid impeding the school calendar. 

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BUILD EDUCATIONAL WING ($4,680,000)

Regina has a strong tradition of forming students academically, spiritually and socially. To continue offering that experience to all our students, we have studied our current needs and what it will take to grow Regina into the future. A primary focus of growing our enrollment will be to expand our Early Childhood Center into existing classroom space. We currently can accommodate 80 students in our early-childhood program and would like to increase that to 125. Historical data tell us that we have an 80 percent rate of retaining students at Regina once they attend our Early Childhood Center. By increasing the size of our early-childhood program, we will ensure Regina continues to thrive for years to come.

We will move the early-childhood students out of the current Bunny Room to existing classroom space, namely three elementary classrooms, one shared oversize room and two high school rooms. By using existing space in this way, we will not only save money but also enhance the security of our students by moving the elementary offices up to the Bunny Room, thus providing a secure checkpoint for all visitors entering the school.

We will need to build seven new classrooms to replace the space repurposed for our early-childhood students. In addition, we will build a new science lab, which will accommodate more students and provide a better learning environment for them. We also will be adding flex space, collaborative teaching space and a new, secure entrance to the back of our school.

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CAMPAIGN EXPENSES ($385,000)

 

PHASE ONE TOTAL COSTS • $5,995,000

The elements of phase one represent the most pressing needs and will be addressed within the three-year Pride in Our Past campaign. Beyond that, strategic planning from our Board of Education and feedback from the planning study clearly point to the need for the following projects – renovated auditorium, new gymnasium and athletic facilities – which will be phase two of our long-term strategic vision. (Formal cost estimates of the phase two components have yet to be finalized, as our focus is on accomplishing phase one.)

 

These Capital Campaign Naming Opportunities are Still Available:

  • First Avenue Drive: $250,000
  • Science Lab: $250,000
  • Classrooms (5): $150,000
  • Wrestling Room: $250,000
  • Athletic Training Room: $50,000
  • Athletic Video Room: $100,000

 

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